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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book explores fresh perspectives on suicide, rather than being another book about prevention. The authors present very insightful tools and resources." --Doody
Table of ContentsPart 1 Time for a paradigm shift 1. Suicide is about life 2. The implicit suicidal mind clings to life 3. Zest for life: an antidote to suicide? Part 2 To be or not to be 4. The temporal dynamics of the wish to live and the wish to die among suicidal individuals 5. Daily monitoring of the wish to live and the wish to die with suicidal inpatients 6. Alternatives to suicide: a nonlinear dynamic perspective 7. Connectedness and suicide Part 3 Through the lens of the suicidal person 8. Collaborative movement from “preventing suicide to recovering desire to live 9. The “alternatives to suicide approach: a decade of lessons learned 10. Psychological resilience to suicidal experiences 11. Textual analysis of suicide notes: how a new approach could yield fresh insights? Part 4 Suicide and a life worth living from indigenous and refugee perspectives 12. Self-determination and strengths-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention: an emerging evidence-based approach 13. Refugees and suicide: when the quest for a better life becomes thwarted Part 5 Epigenetics of suicidal behaviors 14. Epigenetics of suicidal behaviors
