Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better
Craig J. Bryan
Jul 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Mark Torres
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An examination of how suicide prevention efforts largely fail due to the mistaken assumption that greater mental health awareness is the key to saving lives. Rethinking Suicide is a critical examination of what we think we know about suicide, with particular focus on the assumed role of mental illness. Craig J. Bryan, a leading expert on suicide prevention, argues that most prevention efforts have failed because they disproportionately emphasize mental health-focused solutions such as access to treatment and crisis services. Instead of classifying suicide as a mental health issue, careful analysis of research findings suggest it should instead be seen as a highly complex problem with many risk factors-from personal decision-making styles, to the availability of lethal means, to financial uncertainty. As such suicide rates will not be curtailed by conventional solution-oriented thinking; rather, we need process-based thinking that may, in some cases, defy or contradict many of our long-held assumptions about suicide. Rethinking Suicide interweaves the author's firsthand experiences with explanations of scientific findings to reveal the limitations of widely-used practices and to introduce new perspectives that may trigger a paradigm shift in how we understand and prevent suicide.
About the author
Craig J. Bryan is a board-certified clinical psychologist and the Stress, Trauma, and Resilience professor of psychiatry and behavioral health at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. His research on suicide has led to the development and refinement of interventions that significantly reduce suicidal behaviors.
Mark Torres is a professional actor and director, based out of New York City. His film and TV credits include FBI: Most Wanted on CBS, Dexter on Showtime, Dr. Death on Peacock, Law & Order: Organized Crime and Manifest on NBC, Designated Survivor on Netflix, and several films on the Lifetime Movie Network.
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