ABSTRACT
Consequently suicidality is often hard to spot, hard to fathom, and hard to treat. Combine these factors with its notorious qualities of dissembling, impulsiveness, and lethality, and it is not surprising that so many people are able to successfully kill themselves. There are a great many health professionals—doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists, and counsellors who could be well placed to work with the suicidal in ways that will have a greater impact than is currently realised if they are enabled to contain and think about suicide with the person at risk. When it comes to suicide it is the better part of valour and of helpfulness to move beyond debates about treatment models and instead to fully take on what this suicide means for this person, and to work through the suicidality of the person with that person as an individual.
