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Book Club: Developing a Shared Understanding with Konrad Michel’s ‘The Suicidal Person’

Mental Health Professionals' Network Episode 70

Content warning: This episode discusses suicidality.

Join Professor Nicholas Procter (Professor and Chair, Mental Health Nursing) and Dr Conrad Newman (psychiatrist and PhD candidate) for this episode of Book Club, where they discuss the ways in which Konrad Michel’s book ‘The Suicidal Person: A New Look at a Human Phenomenon’ (2023) has influenced their work. 

Together they explore how treatment and interventions have changed in this space over the decades, and the importance of compassion when working side-by-side with clients, keeping their experience of feeling suicidal at the forefront of the conversation. 

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