TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - A case of trauma and attempted suicide in an adolescent patient
JO  - International forum of psychoanalysis
A1  - Macedo, M.M.K.
A1  - Werlang, B.S.G.
SP  - 18
EP  - 25
VL  - 20
IS  - 1
N2  - This paper approaches the existing relationship between trauma, psychic pain and attempted suicide. The contributions of authors in psychoanalysis- regarding the psychic functioning in the face of the domain of the unrepresentable-allow for producing a psychoanalytical understanding of attempted suicide. By means of a clinical illustration, the interrelation existing between trauma, the predominance of the unrepresentable and the psychic dynamics taking part in the dramaticity of a suicide attempt is sought and explored. Hence, such analysis of how one may think regarding attempted suicide, in the way it is named in this paper, as a pain-act, which denounces as it discharges, is the despaired attempt made by the subject in order to get rid of the psychic pain. © 2011 The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0803-706X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2010.497162
ID  - ref1
ER  -