Citation

Valach L, Michel K, Young RA, Dey P. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2006; 36(6): 651-660.

Affiliation

Dept. of Psychopathology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland; Dept. of Community Psychiatry at the University of Berne in Switzerland, 3 Dept. of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1521/suli.2006.36.6.651

PMID

17250469

Abstract

In the present study we examined to what extent persons who attempt suicide describe their attempt in terms of social, joint processes. Psychotherapists interviewed 40 patients hospitalized in a general hospital for a few days after an attempted suicide. The content of the interviews was analyzed for the level of systemic processes the patients referred to (that is, action, project, and career). The most common processes to which the patients referred were relationship careers and projects and conflicts and argumentative actions. Our analysis indicates that a social process can be found at all levels of the patient's organization of the suicide attempt, within a system of goal-directed action, project, and career.

Language: en