Mental health workshop

More than 70 people have attended a workshop in Woy Woy which focused on working with suicide and suicide ideation.

Brisbane Waters Private Hospital hosted the workshop on May 29.

"In carefully managed psychotherapy, suicidal fantasies can be examined and the 'settling of scores' can be worked through, rather than being acted out by suicide," said presenter psychotherapist Ms Antonia Murphy.

"The key to understanding suicide, to working with it, and in some cases to preventing it is to explore, elaborate, and bear the suicidal person's story in mind, both their real story and their fantasy," she said.

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Media release, 30 May 2018

Michelle Ballard, Healthe Care Australia