Suicidology and Suicide Prevention
Section committee
COURTET Philippe
, Chair
SARCHIAPONE Marco,
Co-Chair
IOSUE Miriam,
Secretary
GRAMAGLIA Carla,
Councillor
Section mission
This Section's mission is to:
Improve research in the field of suicidology and suicide prevention and translating research findings into clinical practice. In this sense the Section adheres to a bio-psycho-social perspective and involves an international and multidisciplinary network of researchers and clinicians.
Section objectives
- Raising awareness about suicide as important public health issue and fighting the stigma sourrounding it
- Improving understanding of risk and protective factors
- Sharing experience and knowledge on suicide prevention
- Disseminating best practices on management and treatment of the suicidal patients
Annual reports
Future Activities
symposium
Self-destructiveness and suicidality in eating disorders
03 March 2026 - 03 March 2026 / 34th European Congress of Psychiatry - Prague, Czech Republic
Description :
Chair: Giovanni Castellini (Italy), Philippe Courtet (France)
Presentations:
- Laura Di Lodovico (France) - Clinical, cognitive and psychopathological markers of suicide attempts in eating disorders.
- Giovanni Castellini (Italy) - Early traumatic experiences, emotion dysregulation and self injuries in eating disorders: a candidate echophenotype.
- Carla Gramaglia (Italy) - The unbearable heaviness of Being. The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in the understanding of Eating Disorders.
- Philippe Courtet (France) - Eating disorders are psychiatric illnesses heavily burdened by death risk
Publication
The European Psychiatric Association (EPA) Section of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention