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Psychotherapy of the suicidal patient
Author(s) -
Rosenberg N. K.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1993.tb05375.x
Subject(s) - suicidal ideation , psychoanalytic theory , psychotherapist , depression (economics) , psychology , directive , cognition , psychiatry , suicide prevention , clinical psychology , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , programming language
Three different psychological theories of depression, the psychoanalytic, the behavioural and the cognitive‐behavioural, and their psychothera‐peutic principles are presented. A common, central aim of these therapies is to prevent suicide. But whenever suicidal ideation becomes dominant, the therapeutic method should be changed to a directive, counselling and reassuring form.