(Ebook) Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention by Stephen Briggs, Alessandra Lemma, William Crouch ISBN 9780415422567, 9780203871867, 9780415422574, 0415422566, 0203871863, 0415422574

(Ebook) Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention by Stephen Briggs, Alessandra Lemma, William Crouch ISBN 9780415422567, 9780203871867, 9780415422574, 0415422566, 0203871863, 0415422574

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.