Antoon A. Leenaars 
Psychotherapy with Suicidal People [PDF ebook] 
A Person-centred Approach

Almost a million people die by suicide every year (WHO
estimate)

The sheer numbers have made suicide prevention a major health
target, but effective prevention is not straightforward. Suicide is
a complex event, more complex than most of us imagine, calling for
an equally complex response.

Psychotherapy with Suicidal People provides a multi-component
approach, with rich clinical data including many case histories, to
guide the reader. Based on decades of research from across the
globe, Antoon A. Leenaars takes the reader into the mind of the
suicidal person, from the young to the elderly, from the anonymous
to the famous. There is no better way to know, and thus to treat, a
person.

A plethora of special features makes this volume an international
classic and includes:

* Reflections of many suicidologists such as Heraclitus, Plato,
Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim and Edwin Shneidman.

* A unique window on the clinical mind of the author.

* Empirically supported definition, with applications across age,
gender, historical time, as well as culture.

* The report of the International Working Group on Ethical and
Legal Issues in Suicidology.

Psychotherapy with Suicidal People: A Person-centred Approach is
essential reading for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and
their trainees, and all clinicians who work with suicidal people.

Table of Content

About the Author.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Understanding.

Chapter 1: Suicide.

Chapter 2: Suicide: A Multidimensional Malaise.

Chapter 3: Unconscious Processes.

Chapter 4: Cognition, Communication, and Suicide Notes.

Part II: Suicide Risk Assessment

Chapter 5: Clinical Evaluation of Suicide Risk.

Chapter 6: Thematic Guide for Suicide Prediction (TGSP).

Chapter 7: TGSP: Practice on Suicide Notes, Psychotherapy
Protocols, and Poems.

Chapter 8: Sylvia Plath: A Protocol Analysis of Her Last
Poems.

Chapter 9: Rick: A Suicide in a Young Adult.

Chapter 10: Scott: Suicide or Homicide?

Part III: Applications and Psychotherapy.

Chapter 11: Applications for Crisis Intervention with Highly
Lethal Suicidal People.

Chapter 12: Applications for Psychotherapy with Suicidal
People.

Chapter 13: Justin: A Suicide Attempt in a Four-Year-Old
Boy.

Chapter 14: Jeff: A Youth’s Suicide.

Chapter 16: Susan: A Young Adult’s Isolation.

Chapter 17: Peter: An Adult’s Suicidal Pain.

Chapter 18: Joe: An Older Adult’s Suicidal Pain.

Chapter 19: Adjuncts to Psychotherapy: Medication,
Hospitalization, and Environmental Control.

Part IV: Implications.

Chapter 20: This Is What I Have Learned.

Chapter 21: Ethical and Legal Issues.

Chapter 22: Munch, Dostoevsky, van Gogh, and a Little Bit of
Melville.

References.

Index.

About the author

Dr. Leenaars is a registered psychologist in private
practice in Windsor, Canada, and is a member of the Department of
Public Health Sciences at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and
was a member of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at
the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. He was the first Past
President of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention
(CASP), and is a past President of the American Association of
Suicidology (AAS), the only non-American to date.

He has collaborated with 100 colleagues in over 20 nations, and has
published over 100 professional articles or chapters on violence,
trauma, suicide, homicide, genocide, and related topics. He has
published 10 previous books, and is Editor-in-Chief of Archives
of Suicide Research, the official journal of the International
Academy for Suicide Research. Dr Leenaars is a recipient of the
International Association for Suicide Prevention’s Stengel
Award, CASP’s Research Award, and AAS’s Shneidman
Award, for outstanding contribution in research in suicidology. He
is recognized for his international efforts in suicide prevention,
and has served as an expert witness in legal cases dealing with
wrongful death, suicide, and homicide.