Citation

Dutton DG, Yamini S. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1995; 65(1): 39-47.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7733213

Abstract

Case histories of parricide by adolescents frequently reveal a history of abuse on the part of the victim and acute depression and suicidal ideation by the adolescent. This paper seeks to integrate an established concept of suicide as escape from "aversive self-awareness" through cognitive deconstruction with clinical observations of "projective-introjective cycling" of aggressive impulses, as a means of better understanding and preventing violence toward intimate others.

Language: en