Reflecting on suicide: lessons from my time at Harvard
More than a year ago I was sat in my room watching an American university professor demonstrating a computerised test on a tablet to one of his interns. His name was Matthew Nock and he was a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a world expert on suicide research. The computerised test...
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| description | More than a year ago I was sat in my room watching an American university professor demonstrating a computerised test on a tablet to one of his interns. His name was Matthew Nock and he was a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a world expert on suicide research. The computerised test was and still is called the Suicide Implicit Association Test (S-IAT) and Professor Nock hoped he was on the brink of a breakthrough in suicide risk prediction research. I was sceptical. How could a brief computerised test predict future suicide attempts better than already known suicide risk factors and the expert opinion of a psychiatrist? It was at this moment that I was convinced that I would have to spend some time in Professor Nock's lab at Harvard in order to get the inside story. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee730de4a7cc4e3a8eec68af2e07e4632023-03-09T12:28:28ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych International2056-47402058-62642017-05-0114495010.1192/S205647400000180XReflecting on suicide: lessons from my time at HarvardMayowa Oyesanya0Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK, emailMore than a year ago I was sat in my room watching an American university professor demonstrating a computerised test on a tablet to one of his interns. His name was Matthew Nock and he was a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a world expert on suicide research. The computerised test was and still is called the Suicide Implicit Association Test (S-IAT) and Professor Nock hoped he was on the brink of a breakthrough in suicide risk prediction research. I was sceptical. How could a brief computerised test predict future suicide attempts better than already known suicide risk factors and the expert opinion of a psychiatrist? It was at this moment that I was convinced that I would have to spend some time in Professor Nock's lab at Harvard in order to get the inside story.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S205647400000180X/type/journal_article |
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