How to Contact Me

 If you want to contact me, my e-mail is

lesterd@stockton.edu

or

david.lester@stockton.edu

Suicide Studies

 

Suicide Studies

          I recently started “publishing” some of my essays and research in a self-published journal which I have called Suicide Studies. I published two issues in 2020, four in 2021, and already one for 2022. Some of the articles are not good enough for scholarly journals (especially since Psychological Reports changed hands and stopped accepting one-page notes). But another reason was that, at my advanced age, I no longer have the patience to deal with fussy editors and reviewers. I much prefer to let my co-authors deal with them.

          The issues of Suicide Studies are loaded on to my website (www.drdavidlester.net) and also on ResearchGate.

          However, this is not the first time I have had my own scholarly journal When I was working for the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention Center in Buffalo [NY] during 1969-1971, I started my own journal called Crisis Intervention. My boss, Gene Brockopp, and I sent the issues free to every suicide prevention center in the USA at the time and to leading suicidologists. I published 4 issues each year, and also supplements. One of the supplements became the first edition of Why People Kill Themselves, published by Charles Thomas. The book had four editions. In addition, many of the essays in the journal were included in the manual for crisis interveners, also published by Charles Thomas as Crisis Intervention and Counseling By telephone {3 editions].

          All of the issues of Crisis Intervention (plus supplements) are also loaded on to my website.