Understanding the Relationship Between Mental Illness and Suicide and the Implications for Suicide Prevention

International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Research, Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 609-623

  Mishara, Brian L ^a   Chagnon, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crisis situation, and factors associated with anxiety, psychic pain; Explanatory models of relationship between mental disorders and suicide; Freud, that mental disorders as means of controlling impulses, for self destruction; Mental illness and suicide relationship implications for suicide prevention; Model with addition of crisis situation; Model, suicide and mental disorders and common aetiology; Prevention activities, for people with mental disorders vulnerable individuals, benefiting from early interventions; Suicide and mental disorders having a common aetiology; Suicide and mental disorders, association national strategies for suicide prevention, and mental illness treatment; Suicide, direct consequence of mental disorders persons with mental disorders, at greater risk of suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959827187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998556.ch35     Document Type: Chapter

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