Chapter
Psychological Perspectives on Suicide (IN: Current Concepts of Suicide, edited by D Lester)
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Leenaars discusses four points of view that have been used to study suicide: psychoanalytic (Freud); cognitive-behavioural (Beck); social learning (Lester); & multidimensional (Shneidman). Each of these are presented in the form of 10 protocol sentences. (47 refs.)