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Suicidal Acts Among Latency‐Age Children as an Expression of Internal Object‐Relations
Author(s) -
Cohen Yecheskiel
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1993.tb01241.x
Subject(s) - psychology , object relations theory , psychoanalytic theory , unconscious mind , expression (computer science) , object (grammar) , latency (audio) , developmental psychology , suicidal behavior , psychoanalysis , suicide prevention , poison control , medical emergency , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , electrical engineering , programming language , engineering
SUMMARY. In this paper the author tries to explain the dangerous, self‐injurious acts of latency‐age children as acts that may be perceived as suicidal. Using the psychoanalytic objectrelations theory, the author describes three cases in which the suicidal attempts seem to be the result of the following: the first case describes the attempts as a kind of role‐responsiveness to unconscious demands by both parents. The second example demonstrates self injury as a pervasive, permanently ongoing internal‐object relationship. The third case tries to show how the child, through suicidal attempts, tries paradoxically to revive his lost mother.