I’ve had a nice response to the brief commentary I posted in conjunction with a link to the NY Times article about means restriction. In light of that, I thought I’d post a link to the a site called Means Matter, which is published by the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. The site has summary [...]
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Archive | September, 2008
Means restriction and impulsivity in fantastic NY Times piece
September 8, 2008
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I have mentioned quite a few NY Times articles in this blog because I think they cover suicide really well. Last month they published a piece in the NY Times Magazine that I keep recommending to people in informal and clinical discussions, so I thought I’d link to it here. Many thanks to my colleague [...]
Read more“Trusting” a person at risk who agrees to transport self
September 2, 2008
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A colleague forwarded me the following excellent question posted to a listserv: One question that has been raised is how to handle an individual who reports willingness to voluntarily go to the ER for psychiatric assessment. Since trusting a questionably unstable and suicidal individual to present for treatment opens our agency and the patient up [...]
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