Thomas Joiner je popredný americký psychológ, ktorý sa špecializuje na štúdium samovrážd. Jeho výskum sa zameriava na psychologické a neurobiologické aspekty depresie, samovražednosti a súvisiacich stavov. Joinerova práca sa snaží pochopiť zložité faktory, ktoré vedú k samovražednému správaniu, a hľadá cesty k jeho prevencii.
In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers an account of why some people choose to die.
Thomas Joiner's Mindlessness chronicles the promising rise of mindfulness and its perhaps inevitable degradation. Giving mindfulness its full due, both as a useful philosophical vantage point and as a means to address various life challenges, Joiner mercilessly charts how narcissism has intertwined with and co-opted the practice to create a Frankenstein's monster of cultural solipsism and self-importance.