Dr. Leenaars is a registered psychologist in private practice in mental health and public health, Windsor, Canada, and was a member of the Faculty (Dept. of Clinical and Health Psychology) at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands and the Faculty (Dept. of Public Health Sciences) at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. His main mentor was Dr. Edwin Shneidman, a Father of Suicidology. He is the first Past President of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP), and a Past President of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), the only non-American to have served in that role to date. He has collaborated with 100 colleagues in over 30 nations, and has published over 150 professional articles/chapters on violence, trauma, suicide, altruistic suicide, suicide notes, homicide, AIDS, genocide, psychotherapy, gun control, ethical/legal issues, and related topics. He has published 11 books, including, Psychotherapy with Suicidal People (John Wiley & Sons, UK), and was the founding/first Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Suicide Research, the official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research (IASR). Dr. Leenaars was the Senior Editor of the world report, Suicide among Indigenous Peoples: The Research, the first international volume of its kind.

Dr. Leenaars is a recipient of The International Association for Suicide Prevention’s biannual Stengel Award, CASP’s Research Award and AAS’s Shneidman Award, for outstanding contributions in research in suicidology. He was awarded the status of Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) for distinguished contribution to the advancement of the discipline of psychology in Canada. Dr Leenaars was named one of the 12 most influential psychotherapists on suicide (Dr. D. Meichenbaum, 2005). He is recognized for his international efforts in suicide prevention; for example, in the Arctic, and Lithuania (the country with the world’s highest suicide rate), and has consulted for the World Health Organization (WHO; for example, World Report on Violence and Health, Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments), institutions and governments around the world. Dr. Leenaars has been featured in national and international media (from The New Yorker to the Wagawaga Daily) and has served as an expert witness in legal cases dealing with wrongful death, suicide and homicide. He is listed in Canadian Who’s Who, and lectures regularly worldwide on topics related to suicidology.

SUICIDE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MALAISE

Psychotherapy with Suicidal People: A Person-Centred Approach
Antoon A. Leenaars JOHN WILEY & SONS, LTD, Chichester 2004

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