@article{ref1,
title="Critical suicide studies, between methodology and ethics: Introduction",
journal="Health (London)",
year="2021",
author="Chandler, Amy and Cover, Rob and Fitzpatrick, Scott J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Critical suicide studies developed across the 2010s as a means to theorise and intervene in suicide from perspectives alternative to the &quot;mainstream&quot; of suicidology. What the critical approach understands as &quot;mainstream&quot; can be characterised as originating in two key ways: a North American ego-psychololgical framework that posited suicide as an individual act resulting from poor mental health (Shneidman, 1985) and a European model that approached suicide as social, the trends and causes of which are promarial apprehended through statistics (Durkheim, 1952). The result has been a field that is positivist and quantitative, pathologising suicidal individuals and approaching the prevention of suicide through the detection and treatment of mental illness.   A critical suicidology emerged through the work of scholars frustrated by the limitations of dominant pathologising and medicalised approaches to suicide research and preveniton practices...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1363-4593",
doi="10.1177/13634593211061638",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13634593211061638"
}