| Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention Contributor(s): Briggs, Stephen (Editor), Lemma, Alessandra (Editor), Crouch, William (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415422574 ISBN-13: 9780415422574 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2008 Annotation: Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focussing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how it can be applied to clinical work and policy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior - Psychology | Suicide - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General |
| Dewey: 616.858 |
| LCCN: 2007038787 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis! 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 sections, the book includes:
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 suicidal prevention. |