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Psychotherapy with suicidal people : a person-centred approach /

Almost a million people die by suicide every year (WHO estimate) The sheer numbers have made suicide prevention a major health target, but effective prevention is not straightforward. Suicide is a complex event, more complex than most of us imagine, calling for an equally complex response. Psychothe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leenaars, Antoon A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, Eng. ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, ©2004.
Subjects:
Suicidal behavior.
Client-centered psychotherapy.
Suicide > Prevention.
Suicide > prevention & control
Psychotherapy > methods
Suicide > psychology
Suicide, Attempted
Person-Centered Psychotherapy
Case Reports
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Suicide
  • Suicide : a multidimensional malaise
  • Unconscious processes
  • Cognition, communication and suicide notes
  • Clinical evaluation of suicide risk
  • Thematic guide for suicide prediction (TGSP)
  • TGSP : practice on suicide notes, psychotherapy protocols, and poems
  • Sylvia Plath : a protocol analysis of her last poems
  • Rick : a suicide in a young adult
  • Scott : suicide or homicide?
  • Applications for crisis intervention with highly lethal suicidal people
  • Applications for psychotherapy with suicidal people
  • Justin : a suicide attempt in a four-year-old boy
  • Jeff : a youth's suicide
  • Jennifer : a teenager's suicide attempt
  • Susan : a young adult's isolation
  • Peter : an adult's suicidal pain
  • Joe : an older adult's suicidal pain
  • Adjuncts to psychotherapy : medication, hospitalization and environmental control
  • This is what I have learned
  • Ethical and legal issues
  • Munch, Dostoevsky, van Gogh and a little bit of Melville.