Antoon Leenaars

The Psychological Autopsy

A Roadmap for Uncovering the Barren Bones of the Suicide's Mind

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Produktbeschreibung

This remarkable book affords the opportunity to delve into the challenges that the forensic mental health specialist and public safety professional confront in death scene investigations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780895039194
• ISBN-10: 0895039192
• Artikelnr.: 46907130

Autorenporträt

Antoon A. Leenaars, PhD, CPsych, CPQ, a mental health, public health, and forensic psychologist, has conducted influential research on death and suicide, and was the founding editor in chief of the journal Archives of Suicide Research. Dr. Leenaars has provided forensic services in cases of wrongful death, suicide, homicide-suicide, homicide, and accidents.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Nomothetic Study 1. Suicide 2. The Many Faces of Death: Homicide,
Homicide-Suicide, Self-Harm, and Accidents Part Two: Methods 3. The
Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches 4. The Psychological Autopsy (PA) 5.
A Conversation with Edwin S. Shneidman on Suicide and the PA 6. Problems
with the PA 7. How Many Informants are Needed? 8. Benefits for Informants
Part Three: Idiographic Study 9. A PA: A Barren Bones Investigation 10.
Documents in the Courtroom 11. The PA in the Courtroom Part Four:
Discussion 12. What I Have Learned 13. Final Forgetting