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Chapter 19 - Psychodynamic Aspects of Suicide and Homicide

from Section 1 - Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

By
Rachel Gibbons  and
Gwen Adshead
Edited by
Rachel Gibbons  and
Jo O'Reilly
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Summary

This chapter will be divided into two parts. The first on suicide will look at the current epidemiology of suicide, the psychodynamic understanding of the pathway to a death of this nature and the effect the suicide of a patient can have on the clinician and teams working with them. The second part will describe the psychodynamic understanding of homicide. The suicide section is written by Dr Rachel Gibbons and the homicide section by Dr Gwen Adshead.

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Seminars in the Psychotherapies , pp. 247 - 258
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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