Description
| Product ID: | 9780415422574 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide |
| Subtitle: | Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention |
| Authors: | Author: Alessandra Lemma, William Crouch, Stephen Briggs |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Abnormal psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focussing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how it can be applied to clinical work and policy. Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis! Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy. This powerful critique of current thinking suggests that suicide and self-harm must be understood as having meaning within interpersonal and intrapsychic relationships, offering a new and more hopeful dimension for prevention and recovery. Divided into three sections, the book includes:
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide will be helpful to psychoanalytic therapists, analysts and mental health professionals wanting to integrate psychoanalytic ideas into their work with self-harmers and the suicidal. This text will also be of use to academics and professionals involved in suicidal prevention. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-04-07 |
