Psychotherapy with suicidal people : a person-centred approach / Antoon A. Leenaars.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-446) and index.

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.

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Without complete knowledge ofa suicidalindividuals circumstances, effective therapy cannot be given. This book takes a person-centered approach to psychotherapy with suicidal people, taking into account the biological, psychological, and sociological contexts that bring them to therapy. Based upon the work of Edwin Shneidman, the author provides detailed descriptions of his own work with suicidal children and adults from which other clinicians can benefit. Thoughtful and comprehensive, the book coversthe complexity of suicide and suggests a template to understand the suicidal person andco.

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