Abstract
Attraction and Repulsion by Life and Death in Suicidal and in Normal Children
Orbach I~~et al
The authors examined the phenomenon of child suicide from the perspective of children’s attitudes toward life & death. Projective tests were carried out with heterogeneous samples of 52 suicidal & 58 normal children(aged 6-12). Parallel tests were conducted in 4 weeks. Multivariate analysis indicated suicidals, in contrast to normal children showed high repulsion to life & attraction to death & low attraction to life & repulsion by death.(NBB)