I’ve returned from a fascinating series of trips to two New York State psychiatric facilities (St. Lawrence Psychiatric and Pilgrim Psychiatric), as part of a project I’m working on with the Office of Mental Health. I learned a great deal from talking about suicide risk with over 500 clinicians from a variety of disciplines and [...]
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Possible contagion effect in Nantucket
March 18, 2008
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The small island of Nantucket, MA has seen 3 teen suicides in a short period of time, according to the New York Times. Very sad. Statistically, three suicides in a high school of 400 represents a meaningful cluster, and a possible contagion effect. Whether it is or it isn’t contagion in Nantucket (it [...]
Read moreCaine quoted in N.Y. Times Article on Midlife Suicide
February 19, 2008
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Eric Caine, the chair of our Psychiatry department and co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, was quoted in a N.Y. Times article last week chronicling an increase in midlife suicides.
Read moreNY Times: Making Sense of the Great Suicide Debate
February 11, 2008
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N.Y. Times has done it again. A nice article taking a step back from the current flurry of news and discovery about the relationship between anti-depressants and suicide.
Read moreDeath and suicide on the web
January 17, 2008
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A friend pointed me to an article (found via a post at Think Christian) titled, “The Web Is The Worst Place to Grieve.” The article, published in a conservative-libertarian magazine, describes several examples of real and feigned suicides that have been blogged on the web. Blogging had made possible public suicide notes. The article is [...]
Read moreNew York Times article about elder suicide
November 27, 2007
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The New York Times does a good job raising public awareness about suicide prevention. Today, they’ve published an article bout suicide in older adults. Read the full article here.
Read moreMoving N.Y. Times Op-Ed by Roger Cohen
October 15, 2007
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Roger Cohen has written a moving Op-Ed piece in which he describes the way in which a recent suicide in the Phoenix airport transported him back to his own mother’s decades long battle with suicidal thoughts and attempts.
Read moreNY Times: Short but Troubled Life Ended in Shooting and Suicide
October 12, 2007
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This NYT article about 14 year-old boy who died on Wednesday after critically wounding a teacher and classmates, is a case study in risk for adolescent suicide. Abuse/neglect history, legal trouble, access to weapons, social misfit, recent disciplinary action at school. The temporal proximity of his older brother’s arrest is also striking…again pointing to [...]
Read moreWarning: Non-family Tx may be hazardous to your (family’s) health
October 12, 2007
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A clever article in the September 2007 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology by Jose Szapocznik and Guillermo Prado suggests that “psychosocial treatments with vulnerable populations have the potential to produce negative side effects on families.” The authors reported unexpected findings from three separate studies that compared the efficacy of a family and non-family [...]
Read moreReminder from the bridge: Suicidal individuals are full of ambivalence
September 28, 2007
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Today Mike Hogan, Ph.D., the Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health honored RNN-TV and the NYS Bridge authority for their work in suicide prevention. The bridge authority put up signs and installed lifeline phones with direct link to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. For clinicians assessing and managing suicide risk, the [...]
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