Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-667) and indexes.

Foreword / Joseph T. Coyle -- Preface / Douglas G. Jacobs -- Suicide assessment: an overview and recommended protocol / Douglas G. Jacobs; Margaret Brewer; Marci Klein-Benheim -- Epidemiology of suicide / Eve K. Mo©Øscicki -- A community psychiatry approach to preventing suicide / Robert A Dorwart; Michael J. Ostacher -- The psychodynamic understanding of suicide / John T. Maltsberger -- Perturbation and lethality: a psychological approach to assessment and intervention / Edwin Shneidman -- The neurobiology of suicidal behavior / J. John Mann; Victoria Arango -- Profiles of complete suicides / Jan Fawcett -- Self-mutilation / Armando R. Favazza -- Standard protocol for assessing and treating suicidal behaviors for patients in treatment / Marsha M. Linehan -- Murder-suicide: phenomenology and clinical implications / Matthew K. Nock; Peter M. Marzuk -- Excerpts from an academic conference and recognition of suicidal risks through the psychological examination / Leston L. Havens -- Critical points in the assessment and management of suicide risk / Jerome A. Motto -- Can suicide ever be eradicated? A professional journey / Pamela Cantor -- Suicide and manic-depressive illness: an overview and personal account / Kay Redfield Jamison -- Lifetime risk of suicide in major affective disorders / David C. Clark; Ann E. Goebel-Fabbri -- Suicide and schizophrenia / Ming T. Tsuang; Jerome A. Fleming; John C. Simpson -- Substance abuse and suicide / Roger D. Weiss; Michael R. Hufford -- Borderline personality disorder / Timothy Davis; John G. Gunderson; Melissa Myers -- Trauma and suicide / James A. Chu -- Antisuicidal effect of lithium treatment in major mood disorders / Ross J. Baldessarini; Leonardo Tondo -- Treatment of the suicidal patient with psychotropic drugs and ECT / Carl Salzman -- The inpatient management of suicidality / Gary Jacobson -- ECT and suicide / Eran D. Metzer -- Suicide in children and adolescents / Stuart Goldman; William R. Beardslee -- Suicide in the elderly / David C. Steffans; Dan G. Blazer -- Suicide-prevention contracts: advantages, disadvantages, and an alternative approach / Michael Craig Miller -- Guidelines for conducting a suicide review / Steve Stelovich -- Medical settings and suicide / Martin J. Kelly; Michael J. Mufson; Malcolm P. Rogers -- Suicide assessment in the primary care setting / Michael Craig Miller; Randall Howard Paulsen -- Suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia / Herbert Hendin -- Liability issues and liability prevention in suicide / Thomas G. Gutheil -- Appendix: Guidelines for identification, assessment, and treatment planning for suicidality / Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions.