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From a Cracking Façade to a Total Escape

Maladaptive Perfectionism and Suicide

Bibliographic Data

ID12097563
AuthorsParvin Kiamanesh (0000-0002-6530-6145, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, corresponding author), Gudrun Dieserud (Norwegian Institute of Public Health), H Haavind (0000-0001-9708-5167, University of Oslo)
Year2015
Volume39
Issue5
Pages316-322
Publication date2015-01-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDeath Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0748-1187 • E-ISSN: 1091-7683
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07481187.2014.946625
PMID25590227
OpenAlexW1969125444
LanguagePT
Citations received4
References cited23

This study explored the final stages of the suicide process among six men characterized as maladaptive perfectionists. These men, aged 22 to 58, had no history of suicide attempts or mental health treatment. In-depth interviews with 5 to 9 informants for each person were analyzed by using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Three themes emerged from the analysis: (a) a cracking façade; (b) a total loss of coping ability; and (c) a total escape. Suicide was related to a shameful defeat that was not reversible, and a loss of the ability to handle such feelings of defeat and shame

Coping (psychology · Feeling · Interpretative phenomenological analysis · Medical emergency · Mental health · Poison control · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Shame · Suicide prevention · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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