Suicide An unnecessary death

Approximately one million people worldwide commit suicide each year, and at least ten times as many attempt suicide. A considerable number of these people are in contact with members of the healthcare sector, and encounters with suicidal individuals form a common part of the everyday work of many healthcare professionals. Suicide: An unnecessary death examines the pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial measures adopted by psychiatrists, GPs, and other health-care staff, and emphasizes the need for a clearer psychodynamic understanding of the self if patients are to be successfully recognized, diagnosed, and treated. Drawing on the latest research by leading international experts in the field of suicidology, this new edition provides clinicians with an accessible summary of the latest research into suicide and its prevention. The abundance of new literature can make it difficult for those whose clinical practice involves daily contact with suicidal patients to devote sufficient time to penetrating the research and, accordingly, apply new findings in their clinical practice. In light of the WHO Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020, this new edition is a timely contribution to the field, and a vital and rapid overview, that will increase awareness of suicide prevention methods.

1 - Suicide in the world
2 - Stress-vulnerability model of suicidal behaviours
3 - The suicidal process
4 - Neurobiology of suicide and attempted suicide
5 - Social dimensions of suicide
6 - Depression, bipolar disorders and suicide
7 - Alcohol, other psychoactive substance use disorders and suicide
8 - Anxiety and suicide
9 - Eating disorders and suicide
10 - Adjustment disorders and suicide
11 - Suicide risk in schizophrenia
12 - Personality disorders and suicide
13 - Physical illnesses and suicide
14 - Negative life events and suicide
15 - Suicidal people's experiences of trauma and negative life events
16 - Attempted suicide as a risk factor for suicide
17 - Immigrant populations and suicide
18 - Suicide in the Criminal Justice System
19 - Suicide in the Armed Forces
20 - Adolescent suicide and attempted suicide
21 - Older adults and suicide
22 - Suicide risk assessment
23 - The suicidal patient-doctor relationship
24 - Heuristics and biases in suicide risk assessment
25 - Psychometric scales in suicide risk assessment
26 - Strategies in suicide prevention
27 - Pharmacological treatment of underlying psychiatric disorders in suicidal patients
28 - Psychological Treatments for Suicidal Individuals
29 - Education of general practitioners in depression and suicide prevention
30 - Collaboration between psychiatrists and other physicians
31 - The work environment for healthcare staff
32 - A psycho-educational perspective on family involvement in suicide prevention and postvention
33 - Perestroika in the former USSR: history's most effective suicide-preventive programme for men
34 - Controlling the environment to prevent suicide
35 - Suicide prevention through the Internet
36 - Suicide prevention in schools

Professor in Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Danuta Wasserman is the Founding Head of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at KI, Stockholm, Sweden since 1993. She is also the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Methods Development and Training in Suicide Prevention, and expert advisor to the WHO Office in Copenhagen and Genève since 1995. Professor Wasserman was President of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) from January 2013 - January 2014. She is a former President of the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR) and is also Honorary President of the Swedish-Estonian Institute of Suicidology. On a National and Nordic level, Professor Wasserman has built up a National Centre for Suicide Research and the Prevention of Mental Ill-Health and a strong Nordic research network on the prevention of mental disorders.