Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Pietro Pellegrini, Euro Pozzi
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/4
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 657-672 File size 107 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2013-004005
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In two separate interventions, two psychiatrists of the public sector (Pietro Pellegrini and Euro Pozzi) discuss the "Recommendations for suicide prevention" promulgated in 2012 by the Italian region Emilia-Romagna. The issue of suicide is complex. Already in 1897 Émile Durhkeim argued that suicide cannot be reduced to psychopathology, but is related to the quality of "social bond", and it has to be seen as a "social fact". The relationship between suicide and mental disorder is discussed in light of the DSM’s oversimplified conception of psychopathology, and of the gaps between theoretical and real predictability and between recommendations and actual clinical work. Suicide is not only a psychiatric problem. In order to avoid the practice of a "defensive psychiatry", mental health system cannot compensate for other systems (social, economical, etc.).
Keywords: Suicide, guidelines in psychiatry, social bond, responsibility, sentinel event
Pietro Pellegrini, Euro Pozzi, Dibattiti in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 4/2013, pp 657-672, DOI: 10.3280/PU2013-004005