Psychoanalytic understanding of the request for assisted suicide
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 8973282 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Stephen Briggs (0000-0003-4966-7503, Clinical Education, Development and Research (CEDAR), Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, autor correspondente), Reinhard Lindner (0000-0002-7766-5110, University of Kassel), Mark J Goldblatt (0000-0002-0391-8947, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA), Nestor D Kapusta (0000-0002-0970-4341, Medical University of Vienna), Nestor Kapusta (Medical University of Vienna), Martin Teising (Alexander Mitscherlich Institut Kassel, Kassel, Germany) |
| Ano | 2022 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 71-88 |
| Data de publicação | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Editora | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2021.1999773 |
| PMID | 35168484 |
| OpenAlex | W3213360242 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 21 |
The legalisation of assisted dying, including euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, is increasing in countries across the world and constitutes a key contemporary debate, reflecting social changes, in which two views of suicide conflict; that (1) rational reasons justify assisted suicide, providing dignity and control of terminal illness and (2) suicidal wishes are driven by unconscious and disturbing internal conflicts. In this paper we explore the unconscious motives and meanings of requests for assisted suicide. Although there is a paucity of psychoanalytic literature on the subject, and an absence of practice examples, we make two links, firstly, with the literature of palliative and end of life care, and, secondly, with psychoanalytic understanding of suicide, in order to develop the view that unconscious factors are crucial to understanding requests for assisted suicide. We provide an illustrative case example of psychodynamic psychotherapy with a 94-year-old woman, drawing out theoretical and practice implications. We show that unconscious factors and motives lie behind apparently rational requests for assisted suicide, and attention to these through psychoanalytically informed treatment can bring about therapeutic change
Assisted suicide · Dignity · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychodynamics · Psychotherapist · Subject (documents · Unconscious mind · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |