Reactive suicide attempts in children, adolescents and young adults
Fedotov, D.D.; Chudin, A.S.; Sarkisov, S.A.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 78(10): 1559-1563
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 716737 Document Number: 131297
The paper is concerned with the study of 86 patients from 9--18 years who suffered from hysterical, affective-shock reactions and reactive depressions, accompanied by suicidal acts. Suicidal tendencies in these conditions appeared following acute psychic traumas. Their formation was facilitated by different unfavourable factors. As the children become older there is a complication not only of the clinical picture of the psychogenic disorder, but of the suicidal syndrome. The suicidal act in children proceeds impulsively, while in adolescency there is a presuicidal period. The stability of suicidal tendencies depends upon the depth of depressions; repeated suicides from the expressiveness of psychopathical personality traits and the existence of unsolved psychotraumatizing situations.