Michel and Gysin-Maillart present students, academics, researchers, and mental healthcare professionals with their clinical manual for psychiatric intervention in cases of attempted suicide. The authors have organized the main body of their text in three chapters devoted to suicide and attempted suicide, the Attempted Suicide Short Intervention Program (ASSIP) therapist manual, and their introduction to the text. Konrad Michel is a clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice. Anja Gysin-Maillart is a faculty member of the University Hospital of Psychiatry in Bern, Switzerland. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)