Suicidality
Psychoanalytic Concepts for Understanding Treatment and Research
Hogrefe & Huber (Publisher)
Published in November 2010
Book
Hardback
640 pages
978-0-88937-265-8 (ISBN)
Description
Suicidality poses a serious problem for health policy. According to WHO statistics, more than one million people worldwide commit suicide annually, and in many countries suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the under-40s. Although psychoanalysis has pursued the subject of suicidality from very early on in its history, and the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches now offer advanced methods for the understanding and treatment of suicidality, suicide prevention strategies rarely reflect these methods. This book intends to rectify this, by showing how psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic concepts can make a vital contribution to the understanding, treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Publishing group
Hogrefe Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, those involved in suicide prevention and research.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-88937-265-8 (9780889372658)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Dipl.-Psych. Georg Fiedler ist in der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Therapiezentrums für Suizidgefährdete in Hamburg tätig.
Paul Götze
Reinhard Lindner
Paul Götze
Reinhard Lindner
Content
Understanding: psychoanalytical discourse on suicidality in various language regions; suicidality in life cycle; suicidality among women; special aspects. Treatment: treatment problems and strategies; concept of treatment frameworks. Research. Psychoanalytic research groups on suicidality: Boston - psychoanalytic psychotherapy - three cases addressing important principles of treatment; New York - The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; Hamburg - Centre for Therapy and Studies of Suicidal Behaviour.