title: Patient dissatisfaction and attempted suicide.
abstract: This paper deals with the presence of suicidal behavior in a mental health clinic and psychiatric emergency room, and its relationships to what has been described in the literature as the "dependent-dissatisfied" personality. Procedures included a suicidal potential scale, projective figure drawings, and a brief interview about past and present suicidal behavior. The scale used significantly differentiated between high and low potentially suicidal groups. The high suicidal group showed a significantly greater dissatisfaction with treatment both past and present. The implications for both evaluation and therapy of suicidal patients are discussed.
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D011386:Projective Techniques; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012306:Risk; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D000092864:Suicide Prevention