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Countertransference Crisis in Suicidal Attempts

Countertransference Crisis in Suicidal Attempts Abstract The observations and speculations, which make up the body of this communication, were prompted by a consideration of suggestions for the treatment of patients who had made suicidal attempts. My previous investigations into the characters of patients who make suicidal attempts brought me to the conviction that an exteremely prominent need of such patients has to do with their feelings of oral deprivation. Those studies, which are not inconsistent with the observations of other workers, have indicated that the patient who makes a suicidal attempt has had considerable developmental difficulty in terms of achieving a satisfactory relationship with his mother; that, in many cases, this has resulted in the development of a strong passive and oral orientation on the part of the patient; and that, in most cases, the event which precipitates the suicidal attempt has been a symbolic reexperiencing by the patient of an References 1. Tabachnick, N.: Observations on Attempted Suicide , in Clues to Suicide , edited. by E. S. Shneidman and N. L. Farberow, New York, Mc-Graw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 1957. 2. Moss, L. M., and Hamilton, D. M.: Psychotherapy of the Suicidal Patient , Amer. J. Psychiat. 112:814-820, 1956. 3. Freud, S.: The Question of Lay Analysis , in Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud , London, Hogarth Press, Ltd., and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1959, Vol. 20, p. 253. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of General Psychiatry American Medical Association

Countertransference Crisis in Suicidal Attempts

Archives of General Psychiatry , Volume 4 (6) – Jun 1, 1961

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1961 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-990X
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1598-3636
DOI
10.1001/archpsyc.1961.01710120042005
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Abstract

Abstract The observations and speculations, which make up the body of this communication, were prompted by a consideration of suggestions for the treatment of patients who had made suicidal attempts. My previous investigations into the characters of patients who make suicidal attempts brought me to the conviction that an exteremely prominent need of such patients has to do with their feelings of oral deprivation. Those studies, which are not inconsistent with the observations of other workers, have indicated that the patient who makes a suicidal attempt has had considerable developmental difficulty in terms of achieving a satisfactory relationship with his mother; that, in many cases, this has resulted in the development of a strong passive and oral orientation on the part of the patient; and that, in most cases, the event which precipitates the suicidal attempt has been a symbolic reexperiencing by the patient of an References 1. Tabachnick, N.: Observations on Attempted Suicide , in Clues to Suicide , edited. by E. S. Shneidman and N. L. Farberow, New York, Mc-Graw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 1957. 2. Moss, L. M., and Hamilton, D. M.: Psychotherapy of the Suicidal Patient , Amer. J. Psychiat. 112:814-820, 1956. 3. Freud, S.: The Question of Lay Analysis , in Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud , London, Hogarth Press, Ltd., and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1959, Vol. 20, p. 253.

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Archives of General PsychiatryAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jun 1, 1961

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