Suicide Flashcards
Psychache
Intense, extreme, unbearable emotional & psychological pain.
What is a stimuli (discussed in class) in suicide
Psychache
What are personality styles in suicide?
Life long styles
Despair
Suffering w/o meaning
What is are some examples of a psychache?
- The boy in the movie, the adolecent in the tape presented in class, Ariel from the article
What increases the probability of suicide?
Lethality, perturbation, despiar & psychache
What are the 5 clusters of Psychological Needs - Provoking paths to suicidal behavior?
- Succorance & Affiliation
- Achievement, Autonomy, Order & Understanding
- Affiliation, Defendance & Shame Avoidance
- Nurturance
- Dominance, Agression & Counter-reaction
What is Succorance & Affiliation provoked by?
- Thwarted love & belonging intra personally (what you are feeling) & inter-personally (interaction with others)
- Need for support, love, affiliation
What is Achievement, Autonomy, Order & Understanding provoked by?
- A fractured sense of control, predictability & sense of assumptions about life’s outcome.
- Feeling of no control
- Feeling of no meaning
What is Affiliation, Defendance & Shame Avoidance provoked by?
- Assaulted self-image – avoidance of shame, defeat, humiliation & disgrace
- i.e: getting caught in something one was not suppose to be doing.
What is Nurturance provoked by?
- Ruptured key relationships
- grief (not expressed)
- bereftness (loss of family member)
What is Dominance, Agression & Counter-reaction (need to lash out) provoked by?
- Loss of status
- Life goals
- Marriages
- Expressed anger in self-loathing rafe
Give a detailed case example using the five clustered psychological needs
- Adolescent boy from the tape showed
- Autonomy & Understanding - felt like no one understood
- Nuturance - when said, “I don’t need” & “it’s too late”
- Shame avoidance & counter-reaction - when said “you’ll realize when I’m gone” (speaking about how he will only be taken serious when he commits suicide)
- Succorance & Affiliation
