We need a new and comprehensive understanding of suicidal patients the message their behaviour
emits and the best way to establish a therapeutic relationship.Statements containing suicidal
tendencies should not be interpreted as signs of an imminent collapse but rather as extreme
messages of the person's mental state. Suicidality has two important functions: to secure the
object and to change the object.Based on his long experience in the psychotherapy of suicidal
patients Jürgen Kind presents a new and comprehensive understanding of the message contained
in patients' behavior. This enables establishing a working relationship in which suicidal
tendencies become part of the communication.
