Suicide and deliberate self-harm

when attachments fail

Jeremy Holmes

pp. 113-129

in: Maurizio Pompili (ed), Phenomenology of suicide, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

Suicide is one of the most mysterious and most challenging of human behaviours, an inherently traumatic, barely imaginable phenomenon, outside the usual range of expectable human behaviour—Hamlet's "bourn from which no traveller returns".