Suicide Prevention

1. Front Matter

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2. Reflections on the State of Suicidology

   • Rene F. W. Diekstra

   Pages 1-13

3. Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts

   • T. Bronisch, H.U. Wittchen

   Pages 15-26

4. Depression, Hopelessness and Suicide Intent in Attempted Suicide

   • A. T. Davison

   Pages 27-36

5. Suicide Attempters who Attribute their Problems to Interpersonal Difficulties

   • Konrad Michel, Ladislav Valach

   Pages 37-44

6. Suicide among Psychiatric Hospital Inpatients

   • Alec Roy, Ronald Draper

   Pages 45-51

7. Twin Research Perspective on Suicide and Suicidal Attempts

   • Nancy L. Segal, Alec Roy

   Pages 53-61

8. The WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide

   • J.G. Sampaio-Faria

   Pages 63-66

9. Suicide and Suicide Attempt Rates in Europe, 1989–1993

   • A. Schmidtke, S. Fricke, B. Weinacker, U. Bille-Brahe, D. De Leo, A. Kerkhof et al.

   Pages 67-80

10. Relevance of Diagnostic Setting in Predicting the Outcome of Suicide Attempters

    • Paolo Scocco, Diego De Leo

    Pages 81-91

11. Gender Differences in Adolescent Suicide

    • Mauri J. Mattunen, Markus M. Henriksson, Hillevi M. Aro, Martti E. Heikkinen, Erkki T. Isometsä, Jouko K. Lönnqvist

    Pages 93-103

12. The Suicidal Process in Young Suicides

    • B.S. Runeson

    Pages 105-110

13. Childhood Conceptions of Death and Suicide

    • Brian L. Mishara

    Pages 111-119

14. What do we Know about Media Effects on Imitation of Suicidal Behaviour

    • Armin Schmidtke, Sylvia Schaller

    Pages 121-137

15. The Aftermath of Kurt Cobain’ Suicide

    • Alan L. Berman, David A. Jobes, Patrick O’Carroll

    Pages 139-143

16. Media Reports on Suicide in Hungary, Austria, Germany and Lithuania in 1981 and 1991

    • S. Fekete, A. Schmidtke, E. Etzersdorfer, D. Gailiene

    Pages 145-156

17. Shame and Guilt in Suicide and Survivors

    • Norman L. Farberow

    Pages 157-161

18. Shame — The Unbearable Legacy of Suicide

    • Onja Grad, Anka Zavasnik

    Pages 163-166

19. The Erwin Ringel Memorial Lecture

    • Jouko Lönnqvist

    Pages 167-172

20. A Critical Evaluation of Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Depression and in Suicide Prevention

    • Danuta Wasserman

    Pages 173-183

Suicide Prevention: A Holistic Approach contains the selected and edited papers that were presented during the congress Suicide, Disease, Disadvantage, A Holistic Approach, organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention, which was held in June 1995, in Venice.
Suicide prevention is still sadly neglected by governments and public health authorities, despite the fact that in several Western countries suicide has become the primary cause of death among younger age groups. The selected papers express the need for a holistic viewpoint in suicide management. The subjects range from parasuicide to the role of the media, from the special type of psychotherapeutic approach required to the most recent guidelines in pharmacological treatment, from a homage to the memory of Erwin Ringel to the presentation of specific national prevention schemes.
The book will be of interest to public health workers, doctors, psychologists and social workers, as well as voluntary staff and their organizations, and to all those who make suicide prevention one of their primary interests.

• Public Health
• World Health Organization
• behavior
• compliance
• death
• depression
• hospital
• memory
• prevention
• suicide
• therapy

• Department of Psychogeriatrics, Institute of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Padua, Italy

  D. Leo

• Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Germany

  A. Schmidtke

• Community Mental Health Center, Leiden and Municipal Health Authority, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  R. F. W. Diekstra

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