Research Catalog

Title

Psychotherapy with suicidal people : a person-cent[e]red approach / Antoon A. Leenaars.

Author

Leenaars, Antoon A.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2004.

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Details

Description

xviii, 460 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Almost a million people die by suicide every year (WHO estimate) 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. A plethora of special features makes this volume an international classic and includes: Reflections of many suicidologists such as Heraclitus, Plato, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim and Edwin Shneidman. A unique window on the clinical mind of the author. Empirically supported definition, with applications across age, gender, historical time, as well as culture. The report of the International Working Group on Ethical and Legal Issues in Suicidology. 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. -- Publisher description.

Subject

• Suicide > psychology
• Suicidal behavior
• Client-centered psychotherapy
• Suicide Prevention
• Psychotherapy > methods
• Suicide > prevention & control > Case Reports
• Psychotherapy > methods > Case Reports
• Suicide, Attempted
• Person-Centered Psychotherapy

Genre/Form

Case Reports

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [426]-446) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Suicide -- Suicide : a multidimensional malaise -- Unconscious processes -- Cognition, communication and suicide notes -- 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 for crisis intervention with highly lethal suicidal people -- Applications for psychotherapy with suicidal people -- Justin : a suicide attempt in a four-year-old boy -- Jeff : a youth's suicide -- Jennifer : a teenager's suicide attempt -- 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 -- This is what I have learned -- Ethical and legal issues -- Munch, Dostoevsky, van Gogh and a little bit of Melville.

ISBN

• 0470863412 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0470863420 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003014216

OCLC

• 52509478
• SCSB-11369048

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library