Suicide

Far less attention is paid by mental health clinicians to aspects of death and dying. This Psychiatric Times Death and Dying Special Report helps fill some of that gap.

Sleep and suicide? Researchers investigated improvement in insomnia as a pathway underlying the antisuicidal properties of clozapine.

Studies report an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and even death by suicide following brain injury.

Here’s why the euthanasia of animals as an argument for physician-assisted suicide is invalid…

Research shows an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and even death by suicide following brain injury.

An expert offers a critical examination of the "slippery slope" argument.

What role does countertransference play in physician-assisted suicide? Learn more here.

Recent research found approximately 60 documented cases of suicidal ideation and 7 suicide attempts associated with semaglutide use in patients.

Physician-assisted suicide is now legal in 11 jurisdictions in the US. To this, several clinicians say: “We must care for the dying, not make them dead.” Learn more in our June cover story.

What can 2 recent deaths show us about depression and suicidality?

Here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

Here are highlights from the last day of this year’s APA Annual Meeting.

“Our results indicate that prior assessments significantly underestimated the association between ambient temperature and suicide.”

Here are highlights from the third day of this year’s APA Annual Meeting.

Here are highlights from the second day of this year’s APA Annual Meeting.

Are individuals with bipolar disorder more likely to die from unnatural causes than the general population?

How a radical proposal from California and 3 cases of anorexia nervosa from Colorado exemplify the "slippery slope" of physician-assisted suicide.

The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the April issue of Psychiatric Times.

From a look at record-high suicide rates to subspecialty shortages in psychiatry, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

Suicide is a word that conjures a wide range of intense emotions.

"Earth Day is a poignant reminder of our collective responsibility for the ecosystem and how environmental factors impact mental health."

Although the practice of medicine can be immensely rewarding, it also can be extraordinarily stressful. Here's how we can help prevent clinician suicide.

A range of therapeutic targets are likely to be relevant for reducing risk of suicide in TRD. Here's what you need to know.

The suicide rate in the United States recently reached its highest peak since 1941.

What is new in research on bipolar disorder?