[Relationship of delusions to attempted suicide and suicide].
This article is a contribution to the psychopathology of communication. Using the communication model of orienting behavior the pathological phenomena of delusion, suicide attempt and suicide are dealt with in a communication-theoretical framework. On this basis, the relationship of delusion to suicide attempts and to suicides is examined. The results are that delusion and suicide attempt are subject to a communicative principle, whereas suicide is subject to an anticommunicative principle. Our numerous observations that the act of suicide leading to death is never carried out in a state of delusion are interpreted within the framework of the communication model presented here.
D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*
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