Suicide as 'The Tip of the Iceberg in a Sea of Suffering'
414 views · Published 28 October 2013 · 1:49 · Indexed 6 October 2026
Channel: NYU Langone Health · 2013 · Education
When a parent commits suicide, he or she leaves their children a legacy of questions that can never fully be answered, and can take the better part of a lifetime to address. For Nancy Rappaport, MD, her own path toward acceptance of her mother's suicide included writing a book, "In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide" (2009). In this interview following her Grand Rounds presentation at the NYU Langone Child Study Center, on Feb. 3, 2012, Dr. Rappaport talked about the complex tangle of emotions that children are often faced with when a parent dies by suicide. Depression, substance abuse, and other mental health disorders may have complicated a child's relationship with the parent while he or she was alive, which can affect the grieving process. Dr. Rappaport is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, at Cambridge Health Alliance, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School. To learn more about NYU Langone's Child Study Center, visit http://www.nyulangone.org/locations/child-study-center.
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