Psychotherapy with Suicidal People: A Person-centred Approach

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.