Citation

Späte HF. Psychiatr. Prax. 1988; 15(1): 24-29.

Vernacular Title

Magisches Denken bei suizidalen Handlungen.

Affiliation

Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Witenberg, Halle/Saale.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3281176

Abstract

This paper declines the anthropological and philosophical background for understanding the less understandable: suicide. Though 'understanding' (in terms of the one who wants to understand) implies the rules of its own (i.e. rationalistic) casted beyond the reefs of knowing the author tries to find traces to make up a new perspective of the horizon. With examples from his therapeutical work, and quoting mythology, and historically famous cases thinking within the terms of suicide is delined, and consequences hereof are stated.

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