Familias de jovens que tentam suicidio
AUTOR(ES)
Regina Celia Tamaso Mioto
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
1994
RESUMO
Suicidal attempt can be considered the turning point of a process in which several factors interfere, be them personal as well as social and cultural ones. This piece of work is dedicated to the study of families whose youngsters have tried to commit suicide. It is based on a qualitative approach developed upon the clinical method. The discussion of the method and its unfolding in the research leads one to a central question: Why does a family, at a certain point in its history, have a young member trying to commit suicide? The answer is drawn from two different roads: the first one goes through the literature on suicide tendency, and systemic and psychoanalytic studies about the family; the second one involves the analysis of the interviews with families, taking into account their history, dynamic and structure. In such an approach, the suicidal attempt is interpreted as a means of expressing family conflicts. These conflicts, which increase over a strayed childhood, are worsened duringfamily adolescence. Death desire expressed through the suicide tendency is understood as a feeling underlying family relationships, part of its unconscious structure. Such desire is triggered by the youngster in a desperate and hopeless moment - not only his/hers but also his/her family s
