title: [Magical thinking in suicidal acts].
abstract: This paper declines the anthropological and philosophical background for understanding the less understandable: suicide. Though 'understanding' (in terms of the one who wants to understand) implies the rules of its own (i.e. rationalistic) casted beyond the reefs of knowing the author tries to find traces to make up a new perspective of the horizon. With examples from his therapeutical work, and quoting mythology, and historically famous cases thinking within the terms of suicide is delined, and consequences hereof are stated.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Witenberg, Halle/Saale.
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Späte
mesh_terms: D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D008273:Magic; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D013850:Thinking
vernacular_title: Magisches Denken bei suizidalen Handlungen.