Motivations for preventing versus assisting suicide.
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.
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Psychology Program, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240-0195, USA.
D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012095:Repression-Sensitization; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention