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I understand why they do it as well. I think that even many therapists that I would consider harmful as opposed to helpful don't do it out of malice. I'm not trying to say all of them, but I think that most of them probably think that they're actually helping people by locking them up, believing that they will 'get better' and 'thank them later'.

I also think that many of them are driven to do so out of fear for their careers. I think that changing laws that allow people to sue therapists and psychiatrists if a person kills themselves is fundamental in changing psychiatric freedom.

As for my own therapist, we have been discussing different ways to keep him out of harms way. I recommended this book after I gave it a read. It talks about different things that you can do to keep yourself from getting into trouble if a patient kills themselves. It's about keeping proper documentation and being able to prove that you gave an appropriate standard of care. I lent him my copy, but he gave it back in a couple of weeks saying that he was going to get his own. He finally had it in hand (months later) at my last session. Now I just need to get him to actually read it so we can go about getting the documentation (in my opinion I think we should back date some of it so it looks like he's been keeping these kind of notes all along) in order so he is protected from legal issues in the event of my death.

I'm not complaining though, more joking around about needing to prod him. I find it relatively amusing that I seem far more concerned about him not getting into trouble than he does. He's acquiring his own stash of suicide-related books that I keep wanting to talk about. With the book I just linked to, he showed me that he bought Szasz's book Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide.

Now that I've had a chance to have a good browse of this list, I'm really staggered by all the work you must have put into it. Can't commend you highly enough on putting together such a comprehensive and meticulously organised catalogue.

Several possible additions you may want to consider including are: (Amazon links embedded in titles)

Waking Up, Alive: The Descent, The Suicide Attempt... and the Return to Life

by Richard A Heckler

This one I came across about three years ago when it came out in its second edition, but have never read it.

The next two are biographical. They came to my attention only a few days ago, so obviously haven't checked them out as yet.

My Father's Keeper

by Julie Gregory

A Genius for Failure: The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon

by Paul O'Keeffe

Haydon seems a bizarre character to say the least.

And a fiction title that came out one or two years ago:

Like I Can Love

by Kim Lock