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Stephen (Ed) Briggs - Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention - 9780415422574 - V9780415422574
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Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention

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Description for Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention Paperback. Focuses on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy. This book includes a theoretical overview examples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients applications of psychoanalytic thinking to suicide and self-harm prevention. Editor(s): Briggs, Stephen; Lemma, Alessandra; Crouch, William. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 black & white tables, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JMAF; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.


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:

  • a theoretical overview
  • examples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients
  • applications of psychoanalytic ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
426g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415422574
SKU
V9780415422574
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Stephen (Ed) Briggs
Stephen Briggs is Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Work Research, in the University of East London and Vice Dean in the Adolescent Department of the Tavistock Clinic. He has worked as a clinician, teacher and researcher in the Tavistock’s Adolescent Department since 1991 and has written widely on infancy, adolescence and suicide. ... Read more

Reviews for Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention
"This book offers a complex and in-depth approach to coping with suicidal patients by understanding them better, helping them with effective psychoanalytical treatment and applying psychoanalytical ideas to identify protective factors in suicide prevention." – Nicholas Temple, From the Preface

Goodreads reviews for Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention


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