The Psychological Autopsy: A Roadmap for Uncovering the Barren Bones of the Suicide's Mind

ISBN-13: 9780895039194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 364 str.

Antoon Leenaars

Opis

This remarkable book affords the opportunity to delve into the challenges that the forensic mental health specialist and public safety professional confront in death scene investigations.

Spis treści

Part One: Nomothetic Study 1. Suicide 2. The Many Faces of Death: Homicide, Homicide-Suicide, Self-Harm, and Accidents Part Two: Methods 3. The Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches 4. The Psychological Autopsy (PA) 5. A Conversation with Edwin S. Shneidman on Suicide and the PA 6. Problems with the PA 7. How Many Informants are Needed? 8. Benefits for Informants Part Three: Idiographic Study 9. A PA: A Barren Bones Investigation 10. Documents in the Courtroom 11. The PA in the Courtroom Part Four: Discussion 12. What I Have Learned 13. Final Forgetting

O autorze

Antoon A. Leenaars, PhD, CPsych, CPQ, a mental health, public health, and forensic psychologist, has conducted influential research on death and suicide, and was the founding editor in chief of the journal Archives of Suicide Research. Dr. Leenaars has provided forensic services in cases of wrongful death, suicide, homicide-suicide, homicide, and accidents.