‘Critical suicidology': toward an inclusive, inventive and collaborative suicidology

Abstract

In the spirit of Jennifer White’s comments, I am going to take a mildly optimistic stance. Though I too have experienced mainstream suicidology as excluding I think the limited underlying assumptions the field operates within and maintains are beginning to be effectively critiqued. The paper by Scott Fitzpatrick, Claire Hooker, and Ian Kerridge, Tom Widger’s response and Jennifer White’s subsequent comments bear witness to that. This ‘critical suiciology’, I believe, can facilitate the development of a ‘post-suicidology’ that has the potential to be far more inclusive, creative, collaborative and critically engaged that the current field of study, and would draw on a broader range of interests and people

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