Critical suicide studies, between methodology and ethics: Introduction

Critical Suicide Studies developed across the 2010s as a means to theorise and intervene in suicide from perspectives alternative to the 'mainstream' of suicidology.What the critical approach understands as 'mainstream' or 'traditional' suicidology can be characterised as originating in two key ways: a North American ego-psychological framework that posited suicide as an individual act resulting from poor mental health (Shneidman, 1985), and a European model that approached suicide as social, the trends and causes of which are