title: The family system of suicidal children.
abstract: The organizational characteristics of the family system of psychiatrically hospitalized suicidal latency-age children include lack of generational boundaries, severely conflicted spouse relationships, parental feelings projected into the child, symbiotic parent-child relations, and an inflexible family system. Five cases illustrate a spectrum of family psychopathology and resultant childhood suicidal tendencies.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011385:Projection; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*