Citation

Lansky MR. Hillside J. Clin. Psychiatry 1989; 11(1): 81-97.

Affiliation

UCLA Medical School.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Human Sciences Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2613189

Abstract

A family approach to suicidal crises in hospitalized borderline patients is described. The approach is aimed not only at the acute crises, but at the likelihood that repetitive, panic-inducing suicidal episodes provoke shame-producing over-regulation in the short run or exhaustion of support systems (family and treatment team) in the long run. An emergency family session with a hospitalized patient in acute suicidal crisis is presented. Subacute hospital treatment must respond to these crises mindful of long-term as well as acute risks. Subacute hospitalization allows for family intervention to buttress support systems for the long term task of caring for the suicidal borderline patient.

Language: en