Resource Tag: SELF DETERMINATION

This study tested an integrative model linking experiences of need frustration and need satisfaction with suicidal ideation through a risk-enhancing (via anxious-depressive symptoms) and a risk-reducing pathway (via positive cognitions) in adolescents. The generalizability of the model based on the clinical status of the participants was also explored. A matched sample of referred (n = 210) and […]

In this paper phenomenological descriptions of the experiential structures of suicidality and of self-determined behaviour are given; an understanding of the possible scopes and forms of lived self-determination in suicidal mental life is offered. Two possible limits of lived self-determination are described: suicide is always experienced as minimally self-determined, because it is the last active […]

Self-determination was examined as a protective factor against the detrimental impact of negative life events on suicide ideation in adolescents. It is postulated that for highly self-determined adolescents, negative life events have a weaker impact on both hopelessness and suicide ideation than for non-self-determined adolescents. In turn, hopelessness is hypothesized to generate less suicide ideation […]

The authors review the literature related to patients who obtain a Do-Not-Resuscitate order in preparation for a suicide attempt & the ethical issues involved in mkaing a decision to resuscitate or not in these cases. The authors address the potential legal consequences of action or inaction & clinical issues to consider before such an order […]

In this essay, the author first presents the argument that involuntary hospitalization is justified, & then presents the view that involuntary hospitalization is never justified. It is concluded that involuntary commitment is sometimes justified, but that the rules governing the institution need to be dramatically altered. (21 refs.) JA Contact us for a copy of […]

A theoretical case study & analysis of contemporary suicide among Maori youth is presented. In a traditional Maori conceptulization, individual well-being is sourced & tied to the well-being of the collective cultural identity. Individual pain is inseparable from collective pain & the role of the collective becomes that of carrying individuals who are suffering. The […]

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This book has three main chapters, one on the suicidal mind, one on suicidal behaviours, and the last on causes, consequences, & subpopulations. In each chapter, the author describes a number of myths & misunderstood topics, & then dispels or explains them.

The author begins this study by examining the recent rise in suicide in Japan & the most common public explanations given for this. Cases of Internet suicide pacts are then examined, placing them within the context of suicide in Japan in general, & providing a representative selection of ethnographic findings from Japanese suicide-related websites. Findings […]

This study explored the buffering quality of several characteristics (including self-esteem, autonomy, spirituality, religiosity, & social support) against suicidality. A total of 120 college-age women participated in the study. The full regression model that included hopelessness & a constellation of characteristics conceptually associated with feminist orientation was able to predict significantly suicide risk in this […]

Suicide has traditionally been viewed as a deviant act because it contributes to a climate in which individual life is devalued. Yet, as the author argues in this chapter, the line between suicide that is viewed as being justified (e.g. a person with a terminal illness) & suicide that is for the wrong reasons (e.g. […]

Drawing on 2 years of fieldwork at psychiatric institutions around Tokyo, the author examines how psychiatrists try to persuade patients of the pathological nature of their suicidal intentions & how patients respond to such medicalization. Psychiatrists’ ambivalent attitudes toward pathologizing suicide & how they limit their biomedical jurisdiction by treating only what they regard as […]

This article re-examines Jewish responses towards Nazi racism by studying suicides among German Jews. The author’s purpose is two-fold: first, asking what motivated these suicides & secondly, how far, if at all, Jewish suicides can be considered a form of resistance towards Nazism & to what extent they were acts of despair & hopelessness. (129 […]

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Parts 3-5 of this article discuss the limitations on the right of competent patient’s to refuse treatment, including the state’s interest in preventing suicide. Part 6 argues that the state has a legitimate interest not in preventing all suicides, but only irrational ones & that, conversely, the values underlying the right to refuse treatment only […]

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In this editorial, the author argues that because right-to-die advocates are being frustrated in their efforts to see voluntary euthanasia & physician-assisted suicide legalized, they are resorting to publishing methods of killing oneself that do not require physician assistance. With this information readily available, he asserts that more & more people will resort to DIY […]