P. Castrogiovanni, C. Pacchierotti - Vol. 6, Dicembre 2000,
num.4
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Malinconia e suicidio I: considerazioni cliniche
Melancholy and suicide I: clinical considerations
Since the 18th Century, suicide was considered to be a consequence of a mental
disorder, more frequently depressive, and particularly melancholy. In spite
of this, few studies have been dedicated to the relationship between suicidal
behaviour and melancholia. Many nuclear symptoms of melancholy, investigated
separately, correlate better with suicidal behaviour than with social and interpersonal
factors, as a confirmation of the "endogenous" origin of both conditions.
However, not even in the melancholic subtype of depression a unitary interpretative
model of suicide cannot be proposed not even for the melancholic subtype of
depression; even if it is possible to outline close relationships between suicidal
behaviour and individual psychopathologic components of melancholy, which allow
a deeper investigation of melancholy and could be able to define a structural
context in which the suicide is better understood.
