Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide : Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention Paperback / softback
Edited by Stephen (Tavistock Clinic, London, UK) Briggs, Alessandra (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK) Lemma, William (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, UK) Crouch
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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:a theoretical overviewexamples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patientsapplications 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 suicidal prevention.
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/04/2008
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- ISBN:9780415422574
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/04/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415422574