Therapists’ reactions to the suicide of a patient: traumatic loss impairing bereavement and growth

Mark Goldblatt, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a Faculty Member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, (PT) Harvard Medical School. He teaches and supervises psychiatry residents and psychology interns at McLean Hospital. He is a Founding Member of the Boston Suicide Study Group which focuses on the psychoanalytic understanding of self-destructive patients.
CONTACT Mark J Goldblatt mark_goldblatt@hms.harvard.edu 1105 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2C, Cambridge, MA 02138. USA .

Elsa Ronningstam, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in psychology at Harvard Medical School, a Clinical Psychologist at McLean Hospital, and a Faculty at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is a long-standing member of the Boston Suicide Study Group. In addition to studies of suicide, she is also specialized in assessment and treatment of personality disorders and she has authored and coauthored over one hundred publications.

Benjamin Herbstman, MD, MHS is a psychoanalyst on the faculty at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is a lecturer, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Psychiatrist at McLean Hospital. He is a member of the Boston Suicide Study Group where he writes about and lectures on understanding and preventing suicide. Dr. Herbstman supervises psychiatry residents and is a faculty member in the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He has a private practice in Cambridge, MA. USA.

Mark Schechter, MD, is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at North Shore Medical Center and has clinical appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. He is a part-time Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an Adjunct Instructor in Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School. He is a psychoanalyst and a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is a member of the of the Boston Suicide Study Group, a group of psychoanalysts who publish and teach about psychotherapy with suicidal patients. He has authored multiple papers and book chapters about various aspects of suicide prevention, including clinical evaluation, psychotherapy with suicidal patients, and the therapeutic alliance.