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    Psychology of Suicide: Advanced Analysis
    Psychology of Suicide: Advanced Analysis
    Psychology of Suicide: Advanced Analysis
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    Psychology of Suicide: Advanced Analysis

    By Robert Kent

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    Suicide is a very complex phenomenon that has psychosocial implications, still largely unexplored, but which kills more victims of armed conflicts every year, unfortunately, still occur. In this text we will investigate the various joints, the most obvious to the most recondite of this distressing phenomenon, focusing on the crucial points of the psychological dynamic.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherALVIS International Editions
    Release dateJun 18, 2012
    ISBN9781476436807
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    Psychology of Suicide - Robert Kent

    Psychology of Suicide

    Advanced Analysis

    Robert Kent

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    © 2012 Alvis Ed

    Published by Editions ALVIS at Smashwords

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    INDEX

    Foreword

    Historical Introduction

    Psychodynamics of Suicide

    Mass Communication and Suicide

    The Reasons of Suicide

    Suicide Attempt

    Risk Factors

    Suicide in Young and Old

    Interpretive Models

    Strategies to Support

    Prevention

    Bibliography

    FOREWORD

    If we define suicide as self-destruction of one's being, suicide is undoubtedly a provocation: extreme is the chance of someone who refuses to go on living. If instead we consider suicide as a reaffirmation of one's being, then we are faced with trying to survive by creating an anguished bridge connecting the banks of being and not-being. Suicide is the act by which man can upset the natural plan of creation, is the act by which we can overcome the most powerful instincts of life and even eternity of the divine principle: in this act the man seems to stand above the same gods, that such a gesture is not granted, since the deity is eternal by definition dogmatic. In fact, those who commit suicide is already dead inside, the gesture is not adapting to the situation that the inner thoughts of suicide translates the fundamental desire to vanish into the unknown beyond the helplessness of everyday life. They therefore have a decisive influence on the consistency of links to the past and its courage to face the unknown presence by moving from a pejorative in this world, suicide jackets symbolically promises to be a fall or a rise to a radically opposed to the size of 'be, like a secret door that opens into the unknown and anything. It seems clear that the way suicide is symbolic of the most often characterized by the symbolism of regeneration and regeneration: so we suicides silent and unpredictable, we suicides under the instance's psychic rampage, we will have suicidal despair which constitute a desperate plea for help shouted a world indifferent and distracted; an external event, loss, bereavement, further frustration break the unstable internal equilibrium or balance breaks down at the end of an inner experience that is suddenly open their eyes on the painfulness of impotence to live. Suicide is a cry for help, sometimes a vengeance, but also the striking manifestation of the need for total regeneration.

    There is no doubt that suicide is the death that troubles us most, but still receives little attention to understanding the phenomenon. Our reluctance to talk about suicide demonstrates the need to escape from an uncomfortable topic and, in some ways, incomprehensible. According to the World Health Organization estimates that each year worldwide, about one million people die from suicide, which is equivalent to saying that a suicide occurs every 40 seconds and with very reliable data, a suicide attempt each 3 seconds. Suicide is a very complex phenomenon that has psychosocial implications, still largely unexplored, but which kills more victims of armed conflicts every year, unfortunately, still occur. In this text we will investigate the various joints, the most obvious to the most recondite of this distressing phenomenon, focusing on the crucial points of the psychological dynamics, taking advantage of the valuable contributions offered by modern scientific study on suicide.

    HISTORICAL NTRODUCTION

    We will never know who was who in the mists of time including to be able to end his life by his own hand, he reasons that led him to something so definitive, the fact remains that suicide is always present in society and mythology old. In Egypt pharaoh was allowed to kill himself to the guilty so that high-ranking slipped to a dishonorable death, Queen Cleopatra, Octavian escapes from prison by taking a ritual suicide: making biting by an asp, through divine belief in Egyptian divinizes the person making it ascend to the Pantheon. In Norse mythology, Wotan in Walhalla accepts only those who have died violently: the warriors and suicide, he commits suicide: Lord of the Hanged is called by tradition of Havannah. Among the Maya, Ixtab, The Lady of the string-was hanging by a noose-represented, was the goddess of suicide and they went into a paradise just as they were considered sacred. Ancient Greece initially seems to have an attitude of rejection towards suicide; i1 fact corpse was deprived of his right hand and buried elsewhere, while the body was buried outside the walls of the polis, even the semantic root of the term suicide (autoktonia) maintains an emotional value strong if the death is similar to the murder of relatives. On the other hand all the dissertations on the ancient vision of suicide is marked by a profound calmness and balance: the suicide is personal

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