Citation

Barcia D. Arch. Psiquiatr. 2002; 65(2): 135-152.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Fundación Archivos de Neurobiología, Publisher Editorial Triacastela)

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Abstract

Suicidal behaviour is observed not only in many mental illnesses but is also found in subjects who may not easily be classified as ill. Both patients and healthy people share the same motives which drive them towards suicide. In this paper, some of these situations are analysed, reduced to four categories which the author believes to hold a fundamental relationship with suicide: desperation, hopelessness, loneliness, tiredness of life. Each of these situations shows a close relationship with a single pathology, particularly the latter three, with depression, drug addiction and neurosis, though they are not specific to these and should be considered typical human behaviour. In his role as a psychiatrist, the author is in a better position to analyse these motivations with which he is particularly well acquainted through his clinical experience. However, the basic message of this paper is the demonstration that, in clinical psychiatry, human behaviour may be recognised as such. This is, therefore, an exercise in medical anthropology.

Language: es

Keywords

anthropology; Anthropology; article; behavior; controlled study; depression; Desperation; drug dependence; Hopelessness; human; Loneliness; mental disease; neurosis; pathology; phenomenology; psychiatry; reduction; suicidal behavior; suicide; Suicide; Tiredness of life