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Re-Thinking Ethics and Politics in Suicide Prevention: Bringing Narrative Ideas into Dialogue with Critical Suicide Studies

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  • Jennifer White

    (School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada)

  • Jonathan Morris

    (School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore the conviviality between practices of narrative therapy and the emerging field of critical suicide studies. Bringing together ideas from narrative therapy and critical suicide studies allows us to analyze current suicide prevention practices from a new vantage point and offers us the chance to consider how narrative therapy might be applied in new and different contexts, thus extending narrative therapy’s potential and possibilities. We expose some of the thin, singular, biomedical descriptions of the problem of suicide that are currently in circulation and attend to the potential effects on distressed persons, communities, and therapists/practitioners who are all operating under the influence of these dominant understandings. We identify some cracks in the dominant storyline to enable alternative descriptions and subjugated knowledges to emerge in order to bring our suicide prevention practices more into alignment with a de-colonizing, social justice orientation.

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  • Jennifer White & Jonathan Morris, 2019. "Re-Thinking Ethics and Politics in Suicide Prevention: Bringing Narrative Ideas into Dialogue with Critical Suicide Studies," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(18), pages 1-13, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:18:p:3236-:d:263883
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    2. José Eduardo Rodríguez-Otero & Xiana Campos-Mouriño & David Meilán-Fernández & Sarai Pintos-Bailón & Graciela Cabo-Escribano, 2022. "Where is the social in the biopsychosocial model of suicide prevention?," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 68(7), pages 1403-1410, November.
    3. Broer, Tineke, 2022. "The Googlization of Health: Invasiveness and corporate responsibility in media discourses on Facebook's algorithmic programme for suicide prevention," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 306(C).

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