Konrad Michel

The Suicidal Person

A New Look at a Human Phenomenon

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Produktbeschreibung

Konrad Michel, a leading psychiatrist and acclaimed expert, draws on decades of experience to offer necessary new ways of understandingâ and preventingâ suicide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 142mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780231205306
• ISBN-10: 0231205309
• Artikelnr.: 68104697

Autorenporträt

Konrad Michel is a clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist as well as professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a world-renowned expert in suicide prevention. Michel lost his twenty-year-old son to suicide.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Losing a Patient to Suicide and What It Means for a Young Doctor
2. First Lessons in Reducing Suicide
3. Emotional Stress Affects Brain Function
4. The Brain and Suicide
5. Problems of Communication in Medical Consultation
Box: Theories to Explain Suicide
6. Suicide Is Not an Illness
7. The Fragile Sense of Who We Are
8. Personal Vulnerabilities and Suicide
9. A Think Tank of Concerned Therapists
10. Translating Acquired Knowledge Into a New Therapy
11. Now What Does This All Mean for Suicide Prevention?
12. A Special Concern: Young People
13. For Health Professionals: It's About the Person in the Patient
Appendix 1. Suicide Is Not a Rational Action: ASSIP Handout for Patients
Appendix 2. Questionnaire: Learning Objectives
Appendix 3. What to Do If You Are Concerned About Someone
Appendix 4. Resources
Notes
Bibliography
Index