Citation

Schwartz DA. Psychiatr. Q. 1979; 51(1): 64-70.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

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PMID

432349

Abstract

Suicidal behavior is generally taken to be symptomatic in nature rather than egosyntonic. However, any behavior which comes to be used as a means of adaptation to the world long enough tends to become ego-syntonic. There are some suicidal people for whom suicidality has become a means of securing nurturance from the interpersonal world. The usual "crisis response" to suicidality reinforces such patients in their suicidal styles. Increased long-term risk becomes the price of short-term nurturance. Specific alterations of treatment and management are indicated if such patients are to be helped to long-term survival.

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