Early Parental Discipline & Adult Self-Destructive Acts

45 male inpatients with major depressive episodes by DSM-III criteria were examined for correlates of inpatient self-destructive behavior. It was found that 44% of the variance for impatient self-destructive acts could be accounted for by a combination of history of severe childhood discipline & parental conflict. Losses experienced during childhood were of less importance than […]

Seneca, Self-Destruction, and the Creative Act

The author presents a study of the life, the works & the suicidal death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, with the purpose of understanding both the nature of suicidal behavior & the significance of creative actions within the life of the self-destructive individual. (NBB)

Voyeurism: Some Clinical and Theoretical Considerations

This paper deals with the subject of voyeurism in an attempt to add to the dynamic & genetic understanding of this problem through the presentation of clinical material gathered in the treatment of a patient in intensive, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy over a 40 month period. 16 Ref.

Suicidal Ideation and the Residual Capacity to Promote Inclusive Fitness: A Survey

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