Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide - Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention (Hardcover, New)

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 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 suicidal prevention.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2008
First published:	2008
Editors:	Stephen Briggs • Alessandra Lemma • William Crouch
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-42256-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-42256-6
Barcode:	9780415422567

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