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Citation |
Goldney RD, Winefield AH, Winefield HR, Saebel J. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2009; 39(1): 33-37. |
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Affiliation |
Discipline of Psychiatry, Level 4, Eleanor Harrald Building, Frome Road, Adelaide SA 500. robert.goldney@adelaide.edu.au |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2009, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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19298148 |
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Abstract |
In a sample of young adult Australians, those who had had suicidal ideation but who did not acknowledge ever having had it when asked 4 years later, were experiencing better mental health, as demonstrated by significantly better functioning on a range of psychometric measures, than those who recalled it. These results are consistent with several recent reports and indicate that forgetting painful events such as suicidal ideation is an adaptive defense mechanism. This has implications in terms of therapy focusing on contemporaneous events and the future, rather than on the past. Language: en |