Suicide: a Clinical Manifestation of Acting out (IN: Acting out – Theoretical and Clinical Aspects, ed. by L E Abt and S L Weissman)

The author considers suicide as a clinical manifestation of acting out & cites, through a series of case examples that have come to his attention at the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles, the kinds of unconscious problems & behavioral translations that issue in attempts at suicide, whether successful or not.