Professor Kevin Malone:

There was a statement about there not being any treatment for suicidality. There is a substantial evidence base for the treatment of suicidality. There is a series of dialectal behaviour therapy studies by Marsha Linehan and there is a very strong cognitive behavioural therapy literature on the treatment of suicidality within and without of major depression and other psychiatric disorders. Marsha Linehan's work deals specifically with people who do not have access one psychiatric disorders, in other words people with personality difficulties who experience high levels of suicidality, who can be very effectively treated in terms of reducing the experience of suicidal ideation and attempted suicide. That is worth noting for the record.