suicidology – A New Vision for Mental Health

Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century

Author: Editorial 12th October 2022 0 Comments

This book has been co-authored by Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, and Jonathan Morris. The publishers say: “In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by suicide argue that the field of suicidology has…
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a coherent system

biomedical model, books, Ian Marsh, Jennifer White, Jonathan Morris, Michael J. Kral, Research, suicide, suicide prevention, suicidology

Teens are increasingly depressed, anxious, and suicidal. How can we help?

Author: Editorial 24th October 2019 0 Comments

This article in Vox magazine has been written by Brian Resnick, albeit mainly within a North American context. It begins: “Here are some numbers we need to reckon with: the number of suicide deaths in people ages 15 to 24, over 36…
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a wellbeing society

Brian Resnick, children and adolescents, gun control, prescription drugs, suicide, suicide prevention, suicidology, Vox

Thinking (differently) about suicide

Author: Editorial 12th April 2019 1 Comment

In Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies , Chapter 10 is called “Thinking (differently) about suicide”. Written by David Webb, it concerns his enquiry into suicide after he stopped being actively suicidal: “… As I continued to wade through the literature, I realised that the actual suicidal…
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collaborative practice

Aeschi Group, books, David Webb, Edwin Shneidman, first-person stories, New Approaches, stigma, suicide, suicidology