title: Motivations for preventing versus assisting suicide.
abstract: The motivations of those seeking to prevent and assist suicide are conceptualized as defensive styles of repression versus sensitization adopted to deal with personal suicidal desires.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Program, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240-0195, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012095:Repression-Sensitization; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention