The Final Scientific Program is now available!

Choose from a variety of parallel sessions, view the poster presentations
and hear from the top experts in the field of suicide and suicidal behavior: 

Start planning your symposium itinerary by downloading your copy of the ESSSB14 scientific program today.

ESSSB 14 Plenary Symposia:

• Where is suicide research going in the next decade? J.John Mann
• Psychological Processes and Suicide Risk: An Integrated Theoretical Perspective, Rory O’Connor
• Experience of loss in the Middle East as reflected in the literature, David Grossman
• Lifestyles, mental health and suicidal behaviors in European adolescents- Results of the SEYLE Study: Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe, Danuta Wasserman
• The Art of Wooing Nature: Searching for evidence-based treatments for adolescent suicidal behavior,
  David Brent
• Images of suicide: The contribution of neuroimaging to our understanding of suicidal behavior,
  Kees van Heeringen
• Role of media in suicide prevention – friend or enemy, Merike Sisask
• Rethinking Suicide Prevention: A Public Health Problem with a Mental Health Solution, Alan L. Berman
• Predicting and preventing suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder, Maria Oquendo
• Preventing suicide by restriction of access to means: rationale, successes and limitations, Keith Hawton

ESSSB14 Keynote Lectures:

• Deliberate Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour in the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder, Franz Resch
• Epidemiology of adolescent suicide- an update, Madelyn Gould
• Brief interventions with suicidal patients, Barbara Stanley  
• Suicide Clusters and Contagion: Evidence, Early Identification and Responding, Ella Arensman
• Mother- Infant, Eyad Hallaq
• The impact of the economic recession on suicidal behaviour in Ireland, Paul Corcoran
• The concepts of death in adolescence in the light of Attachment Theory, Sam Tyano
• Suicide in Bedouin community, Sami Hamdan
• Aggression and suicide: is there a biological link? Marco Sarchiapone
• Gene environment and timing interaction in depression and suicide - from genetics to animal model, Gil Zalsman
• Suicide in bipolar, Haim Belmaker
• How life events get “under the skin”: Insight into the relationship between life adversity and suicide risk, Gustavo Turecki