- Part 1 Suicide in a Religious and Cross-cultural Perspective
- part 2 The Magnitude and Implication of Suicide and Attempted Suicide
- Part 3 Theories of Suicidal Behaviour
- Part 4 Political Determinants of Suicide
- Part 5 Social and Economic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 6 Psychiatric and Somatic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 7 Suicide Risk Assessment
- Part 8 Cost of Suicide and Prevention Strategies
- Part 9 Health Care Strategies
- Part 9A Health Care Strategies: Treatment of Suicidal Adults
- Chapter 53 Countertransference in the treatment of suicidal patients
- Chapter 54 Pharmacological and other biological treatments of suicidal individuals
- Chapter 55 Severe anxiety and agitation as treatment modifiable risk factors for suicide
- Chapter 56 Cognitive treatment of suicidal adults
- Chapter 57 Dialectical behaviour therapy for suicidal individual
- Chapter 58 The psychological and behavioural treatment of suicidal behaviour
- Chapter 59 Family psychoeducation with suicide attempters
- Chapter 60 The role of paintings in suicide treatment and prevention
- Part 9B Health Care Strategies: Treatment Settings for Adults
- Part 10 Public Health Strategies
- Part 11 Survivors of Suicide Loss
- Part 12 Young People and Suicide
- Part 13 Elderly People and Suicide
- Part 14 Networking in Suicide Research and Prevention
- Part 15 Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents
(p. 387) Health Care Strategies: Treatment of Suicidal Adults
Countertransference is an inescapable component of all psychotherapy. Intense countertransference reactions often occur during the treatment of suicidal patients. Lack of awareness of countertransference reactions of malice and aversion may be suicide-inviting. On the other hand, awareness of these reactions may enhance the treatment by alerting therapists that the suicidal patient is fomenting issues he is unable or unwilling to articulate. Problems that arise in the course of psychotherapy of suicidal patients may be understood in relation to the therapist’s countertransference reactions. In this chapter, we review case examples of countertransference manifestations and their effects on the treatment of the suicidal patient.
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- Part 1 Suicide in a Religious and Cross-cultural Perspective
- part 2 The Magnitude and Implication of Suicide and Attempted Suicide
- Part 3 Theories of Suicidal Behaviour
- Part 4 Political Determinants of Suicide
- Part 5 Social and Economic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 6 Psychiatric and Somatic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 7 Suicide Risk Assessment
- Part 8 Cost of Suicide and Prevention Strategies
- Part 9 Health Care Strategies
- Part 9A Health Care Strategies: Treatment of Suicidal Adults
- Chapter 53 Countertransference in the treatment of suicidal patients
- Chapter 54 Pharmacological and other biological treatments of suicidal individuals
- Chapter 55 Severe anxiety and agitation as treatment modifiable risk factors for suicide
- Chapter 56 Cognitive treatment of suicidal adults
- Chapter 57 Dialectical behaviour therapy for suicidal individual
- Chapter 58 The psychological and behavioural treatment of suicidal behaviour
- Chapter 59 Family psychoeducation with suicide attempters
- Chapter 60 The role of paintings in suicide treatment and prevention
- Part 9B Health Care Strategies: Treatment Settings for Adults
- Part 10 Public Health Strategies
- Part 11 Survivors of Suicide Loss
- Part 12 Young People and Suicide
- Part 13 Elderly People and Suicide
- Part 14 Networking in Suicide Research and Prevention
- Part 15 Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents