Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention: Second Edition

Editor : Stephen Briggs, Editor : Alessandra Lemma, Editor : William Crouch

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

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