Suicide and holistic perspective
Suicide is a cause of death that has profound individual and societal consequences before and after each individual's death. Extensive descriptions of sociodemographic distributions and the relationship to psychiatric diagnosis of suicide have contributed to the application and maintenance of a medical perspective and statistical risk factors in the care and assessment of suicidality. We examine how several domains that are active in a suicidal process and crucial to whether an individual dies by suicide can be used complementarily in care and assessment situations.
Our holistic scientific approach implies that our research on suicidal processes starts from viewing individuals as part of a larger whole, and that new preventive knowledge can be gained by understanding the individual in relation to this whole and its constituent parts. Our methodological standpoint is that knowledge emerges from the experiences and meaning-making of individuals with lived experiences of suicidal processes.
