@article{ref1,
title="Projective identification and suicide contagion",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica",
year="1992",
author="Taiminen, T. J.",
volume="85",
number="6",
pages="449-452",
abstract="The effect of suggestion on suicide is well established. However, the intrapsychic mechanisms of the contagion of suicides are poorly understood. In this article I first present the literature about suicide clustering and about projective identification. In the following clinical vignette I try to understand a patient's suicidal behaviour, referring to William Goldstein's clarifying model of projective identification. I aim to illustrate that his model has heuristic value in the treatment of suicidal patients when the effect of suggestion or identification is suspected.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-690X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}