Treatment of suicidal people takes three forms: prevention - strategies to avert conditions leading to suicide; intervention - treatment and care during the crisis; and postvention - response after the event has occurred. Unlike other current literature, here the focus is on the state of the art of intervention. This type of examination is essential, because suicidal people themselves are in need of such treatments - crisis intervention, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and hospitalization.

Part 1 The Case; Chapter 1 The Inman Diary: Some Reflections, Edwin S. Shneidman; Part 2 Assessment and Crisis Intervention; Chapter 2 A Clinical Model for Suicide Risk Assessment, Michael J. Kral, Isaac Sakinofsky; Chapter 3 Crisis Centers and Their Role in Treatment: Suicide Prevention Versus Health Promotion, C. James Frankish; Chapter 4 Crisis Intervention with Highly Lethal Suicidal People, Antoon A. Leenaars; Part 3 Therapeutic Approaches; Chapter 5 Psychotherapy for Suicidal Clients, David Lester; Chapter 6 Family Therapy for Suicidal People, Peter McLean Steven Taylor; Chapter 7 Treatment of the Suicidal Adolescent, Alan L. Berman, David A. Jobes; Chapter 8 Psychotheraphy with Older Suicidal Adults, Joseph Richman; Chapter 9 Gender Issues in the Treatment of Suicidal Individuals, Silvia Sara Canetto; Chapter 10 Suicide and Terminal Illness, Peter M. Marzuk; Part 4 Psychiatric Issues; Chapter 11 Psychopharmacotherapy of Suicide, Andrew Edmund Slaby; Chapter 12 Hospitalization of the Suicidal Patient, Mark J. Goldblatt; Chapter 13 Managing Suicidal Inpatients, Lloyd I. Sederer; Part 5 Clinical and Legal Issues; Chapter 14 Essential Clinical and Legal Issues When Working with the Suicidal Patient, Bruce Bongar, Sheila A. Greaney; Chapter 15 Calculated Risk-Taking in the Treatment of Suicidal Patients: Ethical and Legal Problems, John T. Maltsberger; Chapter 16 The Ten Most Common Errors of Suicide Interventionists, Robert A. Neimeyer, Angela M. Pfeiffer; Part 6 Applications to the Case; Chapter 17 The Inman Diary: Some Reflections on Treatment, Antoon A. Leenaars, John T. Maltsberger;