Citation

Kapusta ND. Suicidol. Online 2012; 3: 1-3.

Affiliation

Department for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, The author(s), Publisher Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy)

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Abstract

The question where to go is essential for researchers in several ways. Usually, there are international research trends upon which we can orientate ourselves. Such trends are initialized by research groups with the necessary power to form a scientific discourse in the main research media, such as scientific journals. However, even though much effort is put into a specific direction, such an investment does not necessarily lead to a success in terms of a scientific discovery, invention or progress and may encounter resistance from the scientific community.

One of such new trends in suicide research is the effort made in delineating Non-suicidal Self-injury (NSSI) from suicidal behavior and pushing towards an inclusion of this new syndrome into DSM-V (Shaffer and Jacobson, 2009). Non-suicidal Self- injury has gained much popularity in the new media, and is often depicted as nearly-normal behavior and videos with such contents are downloaded millions of times from Youtube (Lewis et al., 2011). Therefore inclusion of NSSI in DSM-V would be a clear statement that such behavior is to be taken seriously (Plener et al., 2012).

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