Essential Papers on Suicide

Why do people take their own lives? How can clinicians best plan and carry out intelligent treatment of desperate patients who are giving up on themselves?Suicide, its motivations, characteristics, and psychology are explicated in these papers by the most experienced and renowned experts on the subject. A definitive volume, Essential Papers on Suicide features the work of Ernest Jones; Kate Friedlander; George Murphy, R. H. Wilkinson, S. Gassner, and J. Kayes; Joseph C. Sabbath; Robert E. Litman; Milton Rosenbaum; Charles Swearingen; Avery D. Weisman; Mervin Glasser, Egl Laufer, Moses Laufer and Myer Wohl; Donald A. Schwartz, Don E. Flinn and Paul F. Slawson; Aaron T. Beck, Maria Kovacs and Arlene Weissman; Marie sberg, Lil Traskman and Peter Thoren; Stuart Asch; John T. Maltsberger; Alex D. Pokorny; Erna Furman; Cynthia R. Pfeffer, Robert Plutchik, Mark S. Mizruchi and Robert Lipkins; Myrna M. Weissman, Gerald L. Klerman, Jeffrey S. Markowitz and R. Oullette; Jan Fawcett, William A. Scheftner, Louis Fogg, David C. Clark, Michael A. Young, Don Hedeker, and Robert Gibbons, among others.

Foreword

xi

Edwin S. Shneidman

Introduction

1

(8)

John T. Maltsberger

Mark J. Goldblatt

``On `Dying Together' '' and ``An Unusual Case of `Dying Together'''

9

(11)

Ernest Jones

Psychoanalytic Aspects of Suicide

20

(16)

Karl A. Menninger

Differential Diagnostic Types of Suicide

36

(26)

Gregory Zilboorg

Considerations on Suicide, with Particular Reference to That of the Young

62

(21)

Gregory Zilboorg

Some Aspects of Suicide

83

(10)

Gregory Zilboorg

On the ``Longing to Die''

93

(11)

Kate Friedlander

Suicide as Wish Fulfillment

104

(14)

Ives Hendrick

Dream and Suicide

118

(13)

Emil A. Gutheil

The Fantasy of Being Rescued in Suicide

131

(11)

Viggo W. Jensen

Thomas A. Petty

Some Clinical Considerations in the Prevention of Suicide Based on a Study of One hundred and Thirty-Four Successful Suicides

142

(18)

Eli Robins

George E. Murphy

Robert H. Wilkinson

Seymour Gassner

Jack Kayes

The Anatomy of a Suicide

160

(13)

Leston L. Havens

Suicidal Impulse in Depression and Paranoia

173

(12)

Thomas E. Allen

The Suicidal Adolescent-The Expendable Child

185

(15)

Joseph C. Sabbath

Sigmund Freud on Suicide

200

(21)

Robert E. Litman

A Clinical Study of the Role of Hostility and Death Wishes by the Family and Society in Suicidal Attempts

221

(22)

Joseph Richman

Milton Rosenbaum

Bondage and Suicide

243

(16)

Robert E. Litman

Charles Swearingen

Attempted Suicide and Self-Mutilation in Adolescence: Some Observations from a Psychoanalytic Research Project

259

(10)

Maurice Friedman

Mervin Glasser

Egle Laufer

Moses Laufer

Myer Wohl

Countertransference Hate in the Treatment of Suicidal Patients

269

(21)

John T. Maltsberger

Dan H. Buie, Jr.

The Influence of Suggestion on Suicide: Substantive and Theoretical Implications of the Werther Effect

290

(24)

David P. Phillips

Treatment of the Suicidal Character

314

(17)

Donald A. Schwartz

Don E. Flinn

Paul F. Slawson

Hopelessness and Suicidal Behavior

331

(11)

Aaron T. Beck

Maria Kovacs

Arlene Weissman

5-HIAA in the Cerebrospinal Fluid: A Biochemical Suicide Predictor?

342

(14)

Marie Asberg

Lil Traskman

Peter Thoren

Aloneness and Borderline Psychopathology: The Possible Relevance of Child Development Issues

356

(23)

Gerald Adler

Dan H. Buie, Jr.

Suicide, and the Hidden Executioner

379

(18)

Stuart S. Asch

The Devices of Suicide: Revenge, Riddance, and Rebirth

397

(20)

John T. Maltsberger

Dan H. Buie, Jr.

Psychotherapy with Suicidal Patients

417

(10)

Edwin S. Shneidman

Psychotherapy and Suicide

427

(15)

Herbert Hendin

Suicide in Chronic Schizophrenia

442

(15)

Alec Roy

The Abandoned Therapist

457

(6)

Dan H. Buie, Jr.

Psychotherapeutic Considerations in the Management of the Suicidal Patient

463

(17)

John Birtchnell

Prediction of Suicide in Psychiatric Patients: Report of a Prospective Study

480

(28)

Alex D. Pokorny

Some Difficulties in Assessing Depression and Suicide in Childhood

508

(16)

Erna Furman

Attempted Suicide in Adolescence: The Suicide Sequence

524

(25)

Jack Novick

Family History of Suicide

549

(13)

Alec Roy

Suicidal Behavior in Child Psychiatric Inpatients and Outpatients and in Nonpatients

562

(12)

Cynthia R. Pfeffer

Robert Plutchik

Mark S. Mizruchi

Robert Lipkins

Suicide Danger: Clinical Estimation and Decision

574

(10)

John T. Maltsberger

Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts in Panic Disorder and Attacks

584

(15)

Myrna M. Weissman

Gerald L. Klerman

Jeffrey S. Markowitz

Robert Ouellette

Time-Related Predictors of Suicide in Major Affective Disorder

599

(13)

Jan Fawcett

William A. Scheftner

Louis Fogg

David C. Clark

Michael A. Young

Don Hedeker

Robert Gibbons

Psychodynamics of Suicide, With Particular Reference to the Young

612

(21)

Herbert Hendin

Suicide as Psychache

633

(6)

Edwin S. Shneidman

Index

639

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