Talking about suicide

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TopicPsychology

AuthorDie Arche

PublisherPsychiatrie Verlag

Experiences from counselling for family members

Finding stability when the world is in chaos

When a loved one expresses suicidal thoughts or attempts suicide, relatives often feel helpless and overwhelmed. This book recounts true, anonymized counselling cases and highlights typical challenges: How do you talk to people at risk of suicide? What can you offer? Where are the limits of help?

With empathetic stories and therapeutic explanations, the book helps to sort out one’s own feelings and recognize what can be done and what perhaps cannot. It helps to cope with helplessness and to seek help oneself when support is needed, for example at a counselling centre like ARCHE.

Relatives should not stay alone with their worries – this book provides guidance and support. The authors describe many case examples from their counselling of relatives. They derive generally valid suggestions, strategies, and recommendations from the presentation of the case stories, which makes them easily understandable.