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.
Key Features
- Divided into three sections:
- A theoretical overview
- Examples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients
- Applications of psychoanalytic thinking to suicide and self-harm prevention
- Helpful for psychoanalytic therapists, analysts and mental health professionals
- Useful for academics and professionals involved in suicidal prevention
Additional Information
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.
