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Stephen Briggs, PhD, is Emeritus Professor at the University of East London and Honorary Professor at the Universities of Exeter and Nottingham. He is a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Alessandra Lemma is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and a Chartered Clinical and Counselling Psychologist. She is also a Visiting Professor for the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London and Consultant, Anna Freud Centre.

William Crouch was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in the NHS. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and now works in private practice.

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Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy.

This book suggests that suicide and self-harm must be understood as having meaning within interpersonal and intrapsychic relationships, offering a new and more hopeful approach to prevention and recovery. Divided into three sections, this revised edition includes: a theoretical overview and conceptual framework, psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients and applications of psychoanalytic thinking to suicide and self-harm prevention. Enriched with detailed examples illustrating this approach in a range of settings and with different groups and populations, this book offers an international perspective and contemporary understanding of psychoanalytic approaches to working with suicidal and self-harming people.

This book will be helpful to psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals wanting to integrate psychoanalytic ideas into their work with self-harming and suicidal people. It will also be useful to academic, teachers, researchers, and policy makers involved in suicidal prevention.

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Part I: Conceptual Framework 1. Psychoanalysis and suicide: process and typology 2. The father transference during a pre-suicide state 3. Self break-up and the descent into suicide 4. Psychoanalysis and suicide: process and typology 5. A psychoanalytical approach to suicide in adolescents 6. Treatment priorities after adolescent suicide attempts 7. Mental pain, pain-producing constructs, the suicidal body, and suicide Part II: Psychoanalytic Practice 8. Hostility and suicide: the experience of aggression from within and without 9. Suicidal thoughts during an analysis 10. Suicidality and women: obsession and the use of the body 11. Hostility and suicide: the experience of aggression from within and without 12. Hostility and suicide: the experience of aggression from within and without Part III: Applications in practice, prevention and postvention 13. On suicide prevention in hospitals: empirical observations and psychodynamic thinking 14. On being affected without being infected: managing suicidal thoughts in student counselling 15. Suicidality in later life 16. Skin toughening and skin porosity: adressing the issue of self-harm by omission 17. Psychological safety: a missing concept in suicide risk prevention 18. Postvention: the impact of suicide and suicidal behaviour on adolescents and parents 19. The delusional narrative of suicide bereavement and the psychodynamics of suicide loss 20. Speaking with the Skin: Self Harm and its Meanings for Incarcerated Women 21. When gender is a carrier for the unbearable: Understanding suicidality in transgender individuals 22. Gay men and suicidality: the development and nature of the critical superego 23. Psychoanalytic understanding of the request for assisted suicide