Casebook Suicide and Suicide Prevention: Twelve Suicide Attempts Analyzed by Action Theory

by Ladislav Valach and Annette Reissfelder

A young woman is abandoned by her boyfriend, an older man retires and feels worthless and lonely, a young man learns that his wife is having an extramarital affair. They all see suicide as the only solution.

Usually, after a suicide attempt, people are treated in a hospital, where professionals try to work out the underlying psychiatric illness. Ladislav Valach and Annette Reissfelder, however, argue that suicide is not an illness but an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 366266304X
• ISBN13: 9783662663042
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"