Working in the Dark: Understanding the pre-suicide state of mind

Working in the Dark focuses on the authors' understanding of an individual's pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment.

Author: Donald Campbell, Rob Hale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/08/2017
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780415645430

About the Author

Donald Campbell is a qualified child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and a Training Analyst and Supervisor at the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has worked for thirty years as Principal Child and Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic. Campbell has lectured, taught widely and published papers and chapters on the subjects of suicide, violence, child sexual abuse, adolescence, shame and horror films.

Rob Hale trained originally in psychiatry and psychoanalysis and held a research post at St Mary's Hospital in London where, for five years, he worked closely with people who had attempted suicide. Hale has treated suicidal patients in long-term psychotherapy, and for thirty-five years worked at the Portman Clinic with those who act out in a violent or sexually deviant way.