Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention: Second Edition
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 356
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98480
- ISBN 13 : 9781041021742
- ISBN 10 : 1041021747
Table of Contents
Foreword
J O’Reilly
Introduction to the second edition
Stephen Briggs, William Crouch and Alessandra Lemma
PART I: Conceptual framework
1. Psychoanalysis and suicide: process and typology
Robert Hale
2. The father transference during a pre-suicide state
Donald Campbell
3. Self-break-up and the descent into suicide
John T. Maltsberger
4. Who is killing what or whom? Some notes on the internal phenomenology of suicide
David Bell
5. A psychoanalytical approach to suicide in adolescents
Robin Anderson
6. Treatment priorities after adolescent suicide attempts
François Ladame
7. Mental pain, pain-producing constructs, the suicidal body and suicide
Israel Orbach
PART II: Psychoanalytic practice
8. Hostility and suicide: the experience of aggression from within and without
Mark j. Goldblatt
9. Suicidal thoughts during an analysis
Elmar Etzersdorfer
10. Suicidality and women: obsession and the use of the body
Benigna Gerisch
11. Attacks on life: suicidality and self-harm in young people
Jeanne Magagna
12. Countertransference, role responsiveness and work with suicidal patients
William Crouch
PART III: Applications in practice, prevention and postvention
13. On suicide prevention in hospitals: empirical observations and psychodynamic thinking
Frank Matakas and Elisabeth Rohrbach
14. On being affected without being infected: managing suicidal thoughts in student counselling
Ann Heyno
15. Suicidality in later life
Reinhard Lindner, Astrid Altenhöfer, eorg Fiedler, and Paul Götze
16. Skin toughening and skin porosity: addressing the issue of self-harm by omission
Maggie Turp
17. Psychological safety: a missing concept in suicide prevention
Martin Seager
18. Postvention: the impact of suicide and suicidal behaviour on adolescents and parents
Stephen Briggs
19. The delusional narrative of suicide bereavement and the psychodynamics of suicide loss
Rachel Gibbons
20. Speaking with the skin: self-harm and its meanings for incarcerated women
Anna Motz
21. When gender is a carrier for the unbearable: understanding of suicidality in transgender individuals
Roberto D’Angelo
22.Gay men and suicidality: the development and nature of the critical superego
Nick Spinks
23. Psychoanalytic understanding of the request for assisted suicide
Stephen Briggs, Reinhard Lindner, and Mark J. Goldblatt

