Psychological pain has been reported to be major contributing factor for completed suicide, and classical suicidology based its wisdom on this construct. In this paper we report the case of a patient whose family experienced a high number of suicides apparently due to an escalation of psychological pain in the family members after the successive suicides. We also briefly discuss the problem of helping survivors after the suicide of loved one. © 2008 Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.
Surviving the suicides of significant others: A case study / Pompili, Maurizio; David, Lester; Eleonora De, Pisa; DEL CASALE, Antonio; Tatarelli, Roberto; Girardi, Paolo. - In: CRISIS. - ISSN 0227-5910. - 29:1(2008), pp. 45-48. [10.1027/0227-5910.29.1.45]
Surviving the suicides of significant others: A case study
POMPILI, Maurizio;DEL CASALE, ANTONIO;TATARELLI, Roberto;GIRARDI, Paolo
2008
Abstract
Psychological pain has been reported to be major contributing factor for completed suicide, and classical suicidology based its wisdom on this construct. In this paper we report the case of a patient whose family experienced a high number of suicides apparently due to an escalation of psychological pain in the family members after the successive suicides. We also briefly discuss the problem of helping survivors after the suicide of loved one. © 2008 Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
