Building a therapeutic alliance with the suicidal patient / edited by Konrad Michel and David A. Jobes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General aspects of therapeutic alliance / K. Michel -- Empathy and the historical context : or how we learned to listen to patients / J.T. Maltsberger -- The therapeutic alliance and the suicidal patient / D.A. Jobes, E. Ballard -- The narrative interview with the suicidal patient / K. Michel, L. Valach -- Mentalizing suicidal states / J.G. Allen -- Psychodynamic therapy and the therapeutic alliance : validation, empathy, and genuine relatedness / M. Schechter, M.J. Goldblatt -- Taking an inside view : stories of pain / I. Orbach -- Understanding suicide as an action / L. Valach, R.A. Young, K. Michel -- Attachment theory and the suicidal patient / J. Holmes -- A cognitive theory of suicide : building hope in treatment and strengthening the therapeutic relationship / M.D. Rudd, G.K. Brown -- Neurobiology and patient-oriented models of suicide : a contradiction? / K. Michel -- Suicidal patients, the therapeutic alliance, and the collaborative assessment and management of suicidality / D.A. Jobes -- Psychotherapy with suicidal people : some common implications for response / A.A. Leenaars -- The therapeutic relationship in dialectical behaviour therapy for suicidal individuals / S.L. Rizvi -- Cognitive therapy for suicidal patients / G.K. Brown, A. Wenzel, M.D. Rudd -- Vicissitudes of the therapeutic alliance with suicidal patients : a psychoanalytic perspective / I. Weinberg ... [ et al.] -- Clinical reality : the case of Ms. A.V. / I. Orbach ... [et al.] -- The therapeutic alliance with hospitalized patients / T.W. Lineberry -- Pharmacotherapy and therapeutic alliance in the treatment of suicidality / J.M. Bostwick -- Summary, next steps, and conclusion / D.A. Jobes.