Content warning: The following seminar contains content about suicide.

Any mother would die for their child, but how do you live for them?

Dr Jessica Revill is a psychologist and parent survivor to the loss of her Autistic son Gregory. She wrote the memoir of his death “Find him Among the Living” in 2020. In her book, her investigations into the mental health system, suicide and Autism revealed not a ‘broken system’ but an absent one. Coming from the perspective of both lived experience and research raises questions about the following:

• Is the health care’s separation of health from mental health helping or hindering suicide prevention?
• Doctor education and disability.
• Public health’s approach to prevention comparing preventing road deaths versus suicide deaths.
• A mental health curriculum in schools. What would that look like?
• How does de-institutionalization help or hinder the mental health of people with disabilities and mental illness?
• Non-clinical support systems.
• The emergency room.

Dr Jessica Revill is an Australian psychologist in clinical practice.  She began her professional life as a journalist and then trained as a psychologist doing her master’s degree in psychology at Cal State Los Angeles and then her Ph.D in Educational Psychology at UCLA. She has a video podcast called Prisoner of the Mind with Dr. Jessica Revill and continues to work in private practice as well as being a trainer for Roses in the Ocean, a non-clinical, peer support suicide prevention organisation. She has appeared on numerous podcasts on the subject of autism and suicide including “Hope Illuminated”. Recordings of these podcasts can be found on her website “prisonerofthemind.com.au“. She lives in the Blue Mountains.

This seminar was recorded in May of 2024.