• Challenges suicidology's blind faith in scientism and challenges the fact that the voice of those experiencing suicidal feelings is largely ignored by mental health services.
  
  
• Argues suicide is not caused by a notional 'mental illness' but suicide is best understood as a crisis of the self.
  
  
• In 2006 David Webb completed the world first PhD on suicide by someone who had attempted it. He has been on the board of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and currently works for the Australia Federation of Disability Organisations.