Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide

by Stephen Briggs

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. Divided into three sections, the book 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.

Genres: Psychoanalysis

272 pages, Hardcover

First published April 4, 2008

About the author

Stephen Briggs is Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Work Research in UEL's School of Social Sciences Media and Cultural Studies (SSMCS) and Vice Dean and Consultant Social Worker in the Tavistock Clinic’s Adolescent Department.

Please note that there is a separate Stephen^Briggs who narrates many Discworld audiobooks.