• ISBN13: 9789391370978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: Sage Yoda Press
• Publication Date: March 16, 2021
• Pages: 204
• Original Price: INR 1295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 410 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Interruptions in Identity: Engaging with Suicidality among the Indian Youth explores the shift in the author's perspective from an understanding of 'suicide' to an exploration of suicidality. The shift came organically from her experience of working in a university clinic and interacting with individuals who had communicated to her the presence of 'suicidal thoughts' during their sessions. The work is also an examination of how studying a tendency towards committing suicide is necessarily an attempt to understand the complex interplay of the personal and the social which often leads to that tendency described as suicidality.

The work turns a psychosocial lens and further elaborates on how suicidality expresses itself in the space between the subject and the therapist within the safe space of a clinic. In taking us through these narratives, the author builds a case that it is important to reflect not just on the nature of individual suffering but also its interaction with the prevalent and relevant socio-political forces

Singh, Ambika: - Ambika Singh is a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist currently working at Family Tree: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team in New Delhi, India. She has previously worked with mental health centres in universities, both private and public, to provide mental health services and support to young adults. After her BA in Psychology (Honours Programme) from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, she completed her MA in Psychology (Psychosocial Clinical Studies) and MPhil in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Ambedkar University, Delhi. For almost a decade, Ambika has been working towards developing an understanding of suicidality, especially amidst Indian youth. Framed within the context of the alarming rise of suicide rates in India, her work as a psychotherapist and researcher reflects on the interpersonal nature of the feelings of suicidality.