Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide

<p><em> <br><p><em>Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!</em></p></em></p><p><em>Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide</em> 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. </p><p>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:</p><ul> <li>a theoretical overview</li> <li>examples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients</li> <li>applications of psychoanalytic thinking to suicide and self-harm prevention.</li> </ul><p><em>Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide</em> 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.</p>