Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide

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<EM><P><EM>Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!</EM></P></EM><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