Citation

De Luca M, Bonnichon D, Marty F. Psychiatr. Enfant. 2012; 55(2): 637-678.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Presses Universitaires de France)

DOI

10.3917/psye.552.0637

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Comparisons between suicide attempts and scarifications are plentiful in the literature, particularly in Anglo-saxon reviews, giving birth to new terms like parasuicide. With such conceptual regroupings, isn't there a risk of creating confusion and of erasing an essential differentiation, especially where it takes account of the complexity of the human psyche? If the creation of bridges between these two clinical domains is useful, it should not deform each one's specificities into an amalgam where every self-agressive act is équivaut to every other one. We should instead try to analyse the points which suicide attempts and scarifications at adolescence have in common, but also their differences, around the central axis of the adolescent process. The risk factors tend to be common to both behaviors whereas their place in psychosexual development reveals their singularity.

Language: fr

Keywords

Suicide attempts; Adolescence; Scarifications