Any serious investigation into suicide and its prevention involved focusing on a relatively narrow area of what was a massive field. ‘There is a huge mass of material on the topic
and it grows larger every year…Nearly everyone has his/her own ideas about suicide.’(Alvarez , 1974). My thinking was straightforward: it was not possible to doanything to prevent the suicide of a person who had already taken their own life. But I was interested in the predicament of loved ones left to pick up the pieces: I knew what had happened to me – I benefited from expert, effective counselling. But I wondered about the influence of suicidal bereavement on others and began to research the subject.
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and it grows larger every year…Nearly everyone has his/her own ideas about suicide.’(Alvarez , 1974). My thinking was straightforward: it was not possible to doanything to prevent the suicide of a person who had already taken their own life. But I was interested in the predicament of loved ones left to pick up the pieces: I knew what had happened to me – I benefited from expert, effective counselling. But I wondered about the influence of suicidal bereavement on others and began to research the subject.
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