Citation

Marcelli D. Rev. Prat. 1998; 48(13): 1419-1423.

Vernacular Title

Suicide et depression chez l'adolescent.

Affiliation

Service universitaire de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent Centre hospitalier Henri-Laborit, Poitiers.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, J B Bailliere et Fils)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10050620

Abstract

In the adult, depression and suicide are strongly linked, and the effectiveness of the gesture is correlated with the depth of depression. In the adolescent, a correlation between suicide and depression was long denied because of the particularity of the signs of depression at that age. Presently, such a correlation is accepted, as shown by epidemiologic studies (retrospective and prospective) in suicidal or depressed adolescents. In the general population a relationship between the depressive state and the idea of suicide appears significant. From the psychopathological standpoint, a suicide attempt appears as a desire to attack one's own body, and depression as an impossibility to separate oneself from one's infant past, by which both differ from manifestations in the adult.

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