Situational reactions in suicidologic practice
Ambrumova, A.G.; Vrono, E.M.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 85(10): 1557-1560
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 4072520 Document Number: 245657
The paper is devoted to the description of suicidal manifestations in mentally normal adolescents among typical behavioural disorders characteristic of situational reactions of this age. Three types of suicido-dangerous situational responses of adolescents were specified with regard to their age and auto-and heteaggressiveness ratio: reaction of deprivation, explosive reaction and reaction of auto-elimination. Suicidogenic conflicts were analyzed and spheres of age-specific suicidal conflicts were defined. It is advisable that outpatient management of mentally normal adolescents with a history of a suicidal attempt be conducted in a special room of presentive suicidological service.