@article{ref1,
title="Suicide Attempt During Adolescence",
journal="Crisis",
year="2012",
author="de Kernier, Nathalie",
volume="33",
number="5",
pages="290-300",
abstract="Background: Suicidal behavior among adolescents raises both the questions of object transactions and of how these objects have been internalized. Aims: This article uses a psychodynamic approach to highlight particularities of mental functioning in adolescents attempting suicide and presents the care provided for suicidal adolescents. Methods: The results of this longitudinal research are briefly outlined and a clinical vignette is presented illustrating the latent meaning of the suicidal gesture. The hypothesis is offered that the murder of a part of oneself is an important latent component of suicide attempts in teenagers. Results: Attempting suicide is interpreted as performing unconsciously in order to kill the insufficiently contained infans. The root of this word in Latin literally means &quot;one who does not speak.&quot; We refer to infans as the idealized and speechless part of oneself subjugated to parental projections. A suicidal gesture is a way of relieving oneself of the part of the self that condenses trauma resulting from drives and parents' idealized expectations. Conclusions: Therapeutic work helps adolescents express representations of the meaning of their violent gesture. Murder representations appearing after a suicide attempt modify violence linked to puberty drives and reshape identifications.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0227-5910",
doi="10.1027/0227-5910/a000135",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000135"
}