Citation

Rocco PL. Italian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences 1998; 8(3): 122-125.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998)

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Abstract

This paper critically reviews the limited number of studies, which focus on the issue of surviving suicide. Suicide is an incomprehensible and in some ways, unacceptable fact concerning a loved one. The survivor remains committed to existence as a chosen direction toward self-affirmation, simultaneously focusing on the suicidal person's chosen direction toward non- existence and self-annihilation. Survivors never seem to entirely resolve their feelings. Surviving suicide represents a life change, which can eventually become an enriching one.

Language: en

Keywords

article; bereavement; family counseling; grief; human; life event; suicide