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Clinical Experience With Suicidal Adolescents (IN: Adolescent Psychiatry: Developmental and Clinical Studies Volume IX)
Mintz T
This paper suggests that many suicidal problems evolve from the adolescent’s realization that life is finite and one can kill. This concept is approached clinically from three points of view: frank suicidal cases, covert suicidal cases, and the therapist’s countertransference reactions to suicidal issues. (3 ref.)