(This piece first appeared in the fall 2019 edition of New Jersey Psychologist.) What happens when a patient dies by suicide? Hopefully you never experience such a loss. However, data show that a therapist’s odds of losing a patient to suicide at some point in his or her career are at least one in four, perhaps higher. And if a therapist works in a group practice or hospital setting with other therapists, the likelihood increases that, at some point, they will know a colleagu