Research Catalog

Title

Suicide and the inner voice : risk assessment, treatment, and case management / Robert W. Firestone.

Author

Firestone, Robert

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997.

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Details

Description

xvi, 333 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Suicide
• Suicidal behavior
• Suicide > Prevention
• Defense Mechanisms
• Parent-Child Relations
• Interpersonal Relations
• Suicide, Attempted
• Suicide Prevention

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-314) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The self and antiself -- Suicidal signs and suicide prevention : inwardness--personality traits that predispose suicide -- Brief review of psychoanalytic and cognitive approaches to suicide -- The epidemiology of suicide and brief history of methods for assessing risk -- Suicide among adolescents -- Suicide among older people -- Microsuicide -- The relationship between guilt and the suicidal process -- Regression precipitated by positive circumstances -- The voice process and the fantasy bond -- Couple and family relationships -- Identification of the suicidal individual : the development of the firestone assessment of self-destructive thoughts -- Treatment strategies and malpractice issues -- Voice therapy methodology in the treatment of the suicidal patient -- Guidelines for primary prevention of suicide and summary.

ISBN

• 0761905545 (hbk.)
• 0761905553 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96051212^

OCLC

• 36001401
• SCSB-10910158

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library