Leenaars Antoon A. Psychotherapy with Suicidal People: A Person-centred Approach

JohnWiley & Sons, 2004. — 474 p. — ISBN 0-470-86342-0.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. Psychotherapy with Suicidal People provides a multi-component approach, with rich clinical data including many case histories, to guide the reader. Based on decades of research from across the globe, Antoon A. Leenaars takes the reader into the mind of the suicidal person, from the young to the elderly, from the anonymous to the famous. There is no better way to know, and thus to treat, a person. Psychotherapy with Suicidal People: A Person-centred Approach is essential reading for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and their trainees, and all clinicians who work with suicidal people.Understanding.
Suicide.
Suicide: A Multidimensional Malaise.
Unconscious Processes.
Cognition, Communication, and Suicide Notes.
Suicide Risk Assessment
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 and Psychotherapy.
Applications for Crisis Intervention with Highly Lethal Suicidal People.
Applications for Psychotherapy with Suicidal People.
A Suicide Attempt in a Four-Year-Old Boy.
Jeff: A Youth’s Suicide.
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.
Implications.
This Is What I Have Learned.
Ethical and Legal Issues.
Munch, Dostoevsky, van Gogh, and a Little Bit of Melville.