Alternatives to Suicide. Beyond Risk and Toward a Life Worth Living

Table of Contents

Part 1 Time for a paradigm shift 1. Suicide is about life 2. The implicit suicidal mind clings to life 3. Zest for life: an antidote to suicide?

Part 2 To be or not to be 4. The temporal dynamics of the wish to live and the wish to die among suicidal individuals 5. Daily monitoring of the wish to live and the wish to die with suicidal inpatients 6. Alternatives to suicide: a nonlinear dynamic perspective 7. Connectedness and suicide

Part 3 Through the lens of the suicidal person 8. Collaborative movement from "preventing suicide� to recovering desire to live 9. The "alternatives to suicide� approach: a decade of lessons learned 10. Psychological resilience to suicidal experiences 11. Textual analysis of suicide notes: how a new approach could yield fresh insights?

Part 4 Suicide and a life worth living from indigenous and refugee perspectives 12. Self-determination and strengths-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention: an emerging evidence-based approach 13. Refugees and suicide: when the quest for a better life becomes thwarted

Part 5 Epigenetics of suicidal behaviors 14. Epigenetics of suicidal behaviors

Authors

Andrew Page Professor, Associate Dean (Graduate Research Studies), School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia. Professor, Associate Dean (Research), School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia and on the steering committee of the Young Lives Matter Foundation. Dr. Page has worked as a clinical psychologist in the Clinical Unit for Anxiety and Depression and was co-director of the Robin Winkler Clinic where he was instrumental in developing the clinic's individual and group treatment programs as a model of science-informed practice. He is a past National President of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavior Therapy and the inaugural winner of the Tracy Goodall Early Career Award in recognition of innovation in research. He is currently Associate Editor with Psychotherapy Research and has published over 100 research papers, books, and book chapters. His books include "Clinical Psychology for Trainees�, and he has been awarded teaching fellowships for his work in the training of clinical psychologists and developing training opportunities in rural and remote settings. Werner Stritzke Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia. Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia. Author of three books and over 40 papers and book chapters, Dr. Stritzke has also presented at dozens of conferences including the 10th European Congress of Psychology and the Australian Psychological Society. His research interests cover a wide array of topics such as suicidology, self-stigma in mental illness, and substance abuse.