Relating to self-harm and suicide : psychoanalytic perspectives on practice, theory and prevention / edited by Stephen Briggs, Alessandra Lemma and William Crouch.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Briggs, Stephen.

Lemma, Alessandra.

Crouch, William, 1969-

Conference Name:

International Suicidality and Psychoanalysis Congress (2nd : 2006 : London, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide.

Parasuicide.

Suicidal behavior.

Psychoanalysis.

Suicide--psychology.

Psychoanalytic Therapy.

Suicide Prevention.

Medical Subjects:

Suicide--psychology.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalytic Therapy.

Suicide Prevention.

Physical Description:

xxii, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

Relating to Self-harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy.This powerful critique of current thinking suggests that suicide and self-harm must be understood as having meaning within interpersonal and intrapsychic relationships, offering a new and more hopeful dimension for prevention and recovery.

Divided into three parts, the book includes:

a theoretical overview

examples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients

applications of psychoanalytic thinking to suicide and self-harm prevention

Relating to Self-harm and Suicide will be helpful to psychoanalytic therapists, analysts and mental health professionals wanting to integrate psychoanalytic ideas into their work with self-harmers and the suicidal. This text will also be of use to academics and professionals involved in suicide prevention.

Contents:

Part 1 Developments in theory 11

1 Psychoanalysis and suicide: process and typology / Robert Hale 13

2 The father transference during a pre-suicide state / Donald Campbell 25

3 Self break-up and the descent into suicide / John T. Maltsberger 38

4 Who is killing what or whom? Some notes on the internal phenomenology of suicide / David Bell 45

5 A psychoanalytical approach to suicide in adolescents / Robin Anderson 61

6 Treatment priorities after adolescent suicide attempts / Franȯis Ladame 72

7 Mental pain, pain-producing constructs, the suicidal body, and suicide / Israel Orbach 80

Part 2 Practice 93

8 Hostility and suicide: the experience of aggression from within and without / Mark J. Goldblatt 95

9 Attacks on life: suicidality and self-harm in young people / Jeanne Magagna 109

10 Suicidality and women: obsession and the use of the body / Benigna Gerisch 128

11 Violence to body and mind: infanticide as suicide / Carine Minne 139

12 Suicidal thoughts during an analysis / Elmar Etzersdorfer 150

Part 3 Applications in practice, prevention and postvention 161

13 On suicide prevention in hospitals: empirical observations and psychodynamic thinking / Frank Matakas, Elisabeth Rohrbach 163

14 On being affected without being infected: managing suicidal thoughts in student counselling / Ann Heyno 175

15 Suicidality in later life / Reinhard Lindner, Astrid Altenhf̲er, George Fiedler, Paul Gt̲ze 187

16 Skin toughening and skin porosity: addressing the issue of self-harm / omission, Maggie Turp 189

17 Psychological safety: a missing concept in suicide risk prevention / Martin Seager 210

18 Postvention: the impact of suicide and suicidal behaviour on family members, professionals and organisations / Stephen Briggs 224.

Notes:

"The book is based on and developed out of the discussions that took place at the Second International Congress on Psychoanalysis and Suicide"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0415422574

9780415422567

0415422566

OCLC:

166379356

Publisher Number:

99943844277