Suicide Intervention: Integration of Psychosocial, Clinical, and Biomedical Traditions (IN: Suicide and Clinical Practice, ed. by D Jacobs)

To revitalize the field of suicide prevention, we are going to have to draw on the best of the biomedical and psychosocial traditions. The purpose of this chapter is to take a step in the direction of such a raproachment with a focus on clinical concerns. The authors call attention to the similarities in the interests of all clinicians and speculate on how and why they diverge. (50 refs.)