@article{ref1,
title="Antidepressant therapy in severe depression may have different effects on ego-dystonic and ego-syntonic suicidal ideation",
journal="Depression research and treatment",
year="2011",
author="Bradvik, Louise and Berglund, Mats",
volume="2011",
number="online",
pages="896395-896395",
abstract="The objective of the present study was to investigate whether ego-dystonic and ego-syntonic suicidal ideation occurred at different frequencies during antidepressant therapy. A blind evaluation has been performed on records of 100 suicides with a primary severe depression and 100 matched controls, admitted to the Department of Psychiatry, Lund, Sweden. Ego-dystonic suicidal ideation was more commonly reported during adequate treatment as compared to ego-syntonic ideation (P = .004). Men who committed suicide during adequate antidepressant therapy more often reported ego-dystonic suicidal ideation earlier in their lives compared with those who were not treated (P = .0377). This may indicate that treatment failure for ego-dystonic ideation was a precursor of their suicides. Consequently, ego-dystonic ideation seems to show a poorer response to antidepressant therapy as compared to ego-syntonic ideation, which may be more directly related to depression. Ego-dystonic ideation is proposed to be related to depressive psychosis.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2090-1321",
doi="10.1155/2011/896395",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/896395"
}