Citation

Wolfersdorf MG. Nervenarzt, Der 2008; 79(11): 1319-1334.

Vernacular Title

Suizidalitat.

Affiliation

Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Bezirkskrankenhaus, Nordring 2, 95445, Bayreuth, Germany. manfred.wolfersdorf@bezirkskrankenhaus-bayreuth.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00115-008-2478-2

PMID

18560797

Abstract

Suicidality has always been a part of human history. No thinking or behavior has however gone through such a range of judgments in the course of time. As a "medical-psychosocial paradigm" suicidality now involves a wide range of medical, psychosocial, theologic, and philosophic fields. For dealing psychiatrically with suicidal patients as part of a psychosocial, psychotherapeutic treatment method, a summary is presented of forms, epidemiology, models of development and etiopathogenesis, and the prevention and therapy of suicidal behavior.

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