TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - The role of the father in a pre-suicide state
JO  - International journal of psycho-analysis
A1  - Campbell, D.
SP  - 315
EP  - 323
VL  - 76
IS  - 2
N2  - In the self-examination that followed a patient's suicide attempt, the author was worried by three features which he had observed in an earlier suicide attempt by another patient: (1) the father had not featured in the analysis as much as would have been expected, (2) the suicide attempt occurred during a period when the time and place boundaries of the analytic setting were in jeopardy, e.g. the patient was absent from sessions; and (3) this coincided with the author having temporarily underestimated the suicidal risk. These three features were illuminated by a transference to a father who did not claim his child for himself and offer an alternative to fusion with a dangerous mother. Although the patient's suicide fantasies were based on a pathological bond with his mother, during the pre-suicide state the internalised father who had failed to protect his son from mother was evoked in the countertransference to function as a sanction for the suicidal act.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0020-7578
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -