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The book approaches suicide from the point of view of the suicidal state of mind and is intended to help us understand more about this condition. In its essence suicide is examined as a largely unconscious aggressive act having its roots in a perceived or real experience of thwarted childhood needs.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction , Why suicide? , Suicide and mental health , Suicide and self-harm , Myths, misrepresentations, and fallacies , The suicidal condition , The suicidal fantasy , Working Through , Exploring the consequences , Final thoughts
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Antonia Murphy is a registered UKCP intersubjective psychotherapist and supervisor, with over twenty-five years of clinical experience in the NHS, the third sector, and private practice. As well as her clinical work, Antonia managed the primary care counselling service in Derbyshire from 1998-2006, and was a founding director of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Primary Care (CPC) and chair of the UKCP PCIP college training assessment committee until 2015. Her training portfolio includes course design and delivery of CPC's multi-modality supervision training programme, and more recently she has developed her long-term clinical interest in working with suicide into a training which has been delivered to over forty universities and other settings. She is the former editor of the 'Journal for the Foundation of Psychotherapy and Counselling', an editorial board member of the 'Journal of Psychodynamic Practice', and co-author (with Joan Foster) of 'Psychological Therapies in Primary Car : Setting up a Managed Service'.
Zusammenfassung
The book approaches suicide from the point of view of the suicidal state of mind and is intended to help us understand more about this condition. In its essence suicide is examined as a largely unconscious aggressive act having its roots in a perceived or real experience of thwarted childhood needs.
