Chronic Suicidality and Personality Disorders

Autor: Amit Khanna, Pallavi Sinha, Shailesh Jha, Prerna Khanna, Deepak Moyal
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Handbook of Suicidal Behaviour ISBN: 9789811048159
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4816-6_21
Popis: Often patients with personality disorders repeatedly present in clinical settings with recurrent and chronic suicidal ideation. Chronic suicidal ideation in such clients and patients may follow different trajectories ranging from patients exhibiting marked instability in affect and poor control of impulses to conscious manipulation of the environment with unconscious or conscious motives. Chronic suicidal ideation can often prove to be soothing for some patients giving them an ‘escape’ route like the thought of having control to end their own lives. Often such patients invoke feelings of negative counter-transference in the treating doctors, thereby imposing a barrier to further assessment and management of the same. This chapter attempts to unravel the deepest and darkest corners of the mind responsible for the genesis of chronic suicidal ideation; and the psychological, psychosocial correlates of the same with the latest advances in the treatment and management of chronic suicidal ideation in patients with personality disorders.
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