Konrad Michel is a clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist as well as professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a world-renowned expert in suicide prevention. Michel lost his twenty-year-old son to suicide.

Compelling, compassionate, and comprehensive. Not only is Konrad Michel’s book a must read for clinicians and researchers but it is written so accessibly that anyone affected by suicide will benefit from The Suicidal Person. Michel takes the reader on a journey of his career, what he has learned, the development of his innovative treatment but also his experiences of loss, including the devastating loss of his son to suicide. An incredible synthesis of forty years of research and practice.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Losing a Patient to Suicide and What It Means for a Young Doctor2. First Lessons in Reducing Suicide3. Emotional Stress Affects Brain Function4. The Brain and Suicide5. Problems of Communication in Medical ConsultationBox: Theories to Explain Suicide6. Suicide Is Not an Illness7. The Fragile Sense of Who We Are8. Personal Vulnerabilities and Suicide9. A Think Tank of Concerned Therapists10. Translating Acquired Knowledge Into a New Therapy11. Now What Does This All Mean for Suicide Prevention?12. A Special Concern: Young People13. For Health Professionals: It’s About the Person in the PatientAppendix 1. Suicide Is Not a Rational Action: ASSIP Handout for PatientsAppendix 2. Questionnaire: Learning ObjectivesAppendix 3. What to Do If You Are Concerned About SomeoneAppendix 4. ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex

Konrad Michel is a clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist as well as professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a world-renowned expert in suicide prevention. Michel lost his twenty-year-old son to suicide.

Compelling, compassionate, and comprehensive. Not only is Konrad Michel’s book a must read for clinicians and researchers but it is written so accessibly that anyone affected by suicide will benefit from The Suicidal Person. Michel takes the reader on a journey of his career, what he has learned, the development of his innovative treatment but also his experiences of loss, including the devastating loss of his son to suicide. An incredible synthesis of forty years of research and practice.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Losing a Patient to Suicide and What It Means for a Young Doctor2. First Lessons in Reducing Suicide3. Emotional Stress Affects Brain Function4. The Brain and Suicide5. Problems of Communication in Medical ConsultationBox: Theories to Explain Suicide6. Suicide Is Not an Illness7. The Fragile Sense of Who We Are8. Personal Vulnerabilities and Suicide9. A Think Tank of Concerned Therapists10. Translating Acquired Knowledge Into a New Therapy11. Now What Does This All Mean for Suicide Prevention?12. A Special Concern: Young People13. For Health Professionals: It’s About the Person in the PatientAppendix 1. Suicide Is Not a Rational Action: ASSIP Handout for PatientsAppendix 2. Questionnaire: Learning ObjectivesAppendix 3. What to Do If You Are Concerned About SomeoneAppendix 4. ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex

Konrad Michel is a clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist as well as professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a world-renowned expert in suicide prevention. Michel lost his twenty-year-old son to suicide.

Compelling, compassionate, and comprehensive. Not only is Konrad Michel’s book a must read for clinicians and researchers but it is written so accessibly that anyone affected by suicide will benefit from The Suicidal Person. Michel takes the reader on a journey of his career, what he has learned, the development of his innovative treatment but also his experiences of loss, including the devastating loss of his son to suicide. An incredible synthesis of forty years of research and practice.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Losing a Patient to Suicide and What It Means for a Young Doctor2. First Lessons in Reducing Suicide3. Emotional Stress Affects Brain Function4. The Brain and Suicide5. Problems of Communication in Medical ConsultationBox: Theories to Explain Suicide6. Suicide Is Not an Illness7. The Fragile Sense of Who We Are8. Personal Vulnerabilities and Suicide9. A Think Tank of Concerned Therapists10. Translating Acquired Knowledge Into a New Therapy11. Now What Does This All Mean for Suicide Prevention?12. A Special Concern: Young People13. For Health Professionals: It’s About the Person in the PatientAppendix 1. Suicide Is Not a Rational Action: ASSIP Handout for PatientsAppendix 2. Questionnaire: Learning ObjectivesAppendix 3. What to Do If You Are Concerned About SomeoneAppendix 4. ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex