Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis!Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focussing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how it can be applied to clinical work and policy.

Fonagy, Foreword. Temple, Preface. Briggs, Crouch, Lemma, Introduction. Part I: Developments in Theory. Hale, Psychoanalysis and Suicide: Process and Typology. Campbell, The Father Transference During a Pre-suicide State. Maltsberger, Self-break Up and the Descent into Suicide. Bell, Who is Killing What or Whom? Some Notes on the Internal Phenomenology of Suicide. Anderson, A Psychoanalytical Approach to Suicide in Adolescents. Ladame, Treatment Priorities After Adolescent Suicide Attempts. Orbach, Mental Pain, Pain Producing Constructs, the Suicidal Body, and Suicide. Part II: Practice. Goldblatt, Hostility and Suicide: The Experience of Aggression From Within and Without. Magagna, Attacks on Life: Suicidality and Self-Harm in Young People. Gerisch, Suicidality and Women: Obsession and the Use of the Body. Minne, Violence to Body and Mind: Infanticide as Suicide. Etzersdorfer, Suicidal Thoughts During an Analysis. Part III: Applications in Practice, Prevention and Postvention. Matakas, Rohrbach, On Suicide Prevention in Hospitals; Empirical Observations and Psychodynamic Thinking. Heyno, On Being Affected Without Being Infected: Counselling Students with Suicidal Thoughts. Lindner, Altenhöfer, Fiedler, Götze, Suicidality in Later Life. Turp, Skin Toughening and Skin Porosity: Addressing the Issue of Self-Harm by Omission. Seager, Psychological Safety: A Missing Concept in Suicide Risk Prevention. Briggs, Postvention: The Impact of Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour on Family Members, Professionals and Organisations.