Essential Papers on Suicide

by Maltsberger, John T.; Goldblatt, Mark J.

• ISBN13: 9780814755495
• ISBN10: 0814755496
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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