Suicide

Professor in Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Danuta Wasserman is the Founding Head of the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at KI, Stockholm, Sweden since 1993. She is also the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Methods Development and Training in Suicide Prevention, and expert advisor to the WHO Office in Copenhagen and Genève since 1995. Professor Wasserman was President of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) from January 2013 - January 2014. She is a former President of the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR) and is also Honorary President of the Swedish-Estonian Institute of Suicidology. On a National and Nordic level, Professor Wasserman has built up a National Centre for Suicide Research and the Prevention of Mental Ill-Health and a strong Nordic research network on the prevention of mental disorders.

• SECTION I EPIDEMIOLOGY; SECTION II THEORETICAL MODELS OF SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR; SECTION III RISK GROUPS FOR SUICIDE; IIIA PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; IIIB PERSONALITY DISORDERS; IIIC SOMATIC DISORDERS; SECTION IV RISK SITUATIONS FOR SUICIDE; SECTION V AGE-RELATED SUICIDE; SECTION VI SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT; SECTION VII HEALTH CARE PERSPECTIVE; SECTION VIII PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

[Suicide: An Unnecessary Death] was written for workers (and prevention workers) who are looking for an easily readable handbook. All chapters were written by international specialists, in an accessible way.