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" Early Relationships in Suicidal Patients: "
Pozzi, Alice
Koritzky, Gilly;Ganguly, Anindita
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113850
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TLpq2393158063
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Koritzky, Gilly
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Pozzi, Alice
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Early Relationships in Suicidal Patients:\ Pozzi, AliceKoritzky, Gilly;Ganguly, Anindita
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The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
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2021
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2021
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Psy.D.
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87
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Recent data suggest that relationship problems is the most common contributing factor to suicide (Stone et al. 2018). In the past two decades, there has been a lack of studies that focus on the relational aspect of suicidality. The present study is an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) on the etiology of suicide from a psychodynamic perspective as it relates to early relationships in adult individuals. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight psychodynamic-oriented clinicians about their suicidal cases with the aim to examine the relational history of the suicidal individuals from a psychodynamic and object relational perspective. The questions targeted issues concerning the quality of internalized object relations, the presence of false self conditions, the role that aggression and anger play in the patient’s suicidality, the triggers of suicidal ideation and acts, and the transference and countertransference relationships. The analysis revealed 8 specific themes that occurred at varying frequencies. The 8 specific themes clustered on salient factors such as the significance of early relationships in the development of suicidality, the presence of misattunement in early relationships, the role of self-directed anger in suicidality, the presence of borderline features of organization, depressive pathologies and false self conditions, the resistance to the therapeutic relationship, and the presence of relational triggers and false self conditions. The present analysis aimed to explore the idea that adult suicidality might originate from problematic early relationships, which stunted the separation-individuation processes of development, was confirmed. Despite various methodological limitations, the overall results of this qualitative study are promising. These results yield important implications for clinical practice and contribute to the psychoanalytic literature on the etiology of suicide.
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Mahler, Margaret
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Object relations
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Psychoanalysis
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Psychodynamic theory
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Separation-individuation
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Suicide
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Ganguly, Anindita
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