Presentation Information
[SY-60]Suicide and Psychotherapy
Nobuaki Eto5,6, Rachel Gibbons1,3, Jo O’Reilly1,2,3, In-Soo LEE4 (1.The Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), 2.Medical Psychotherapy at the North London NHS Foundation Trust(UK), 3.British Psychoanalytic Society(UK), 4.Korean Psychoanalytic Center(Korea), 5.Fukuoka University(Japan), 6.Japan Psychoanalytic Society(Japan))
Keywords:
Suicide prevention,Suicide survivor,Psychotherapy,Psychoanalysis
Suicide requires an interdisciplinary understanding that includes not only psychiatric, but also cultural, social, legal and ethical issues.
We live in a society that is threatened by rapid social change, war and disaster. Despite advances in biological psychiatry and various social initiatives to address suicide, suicide will never disappear.
In addition to public health approaches, there are also approaches to high-risk individuals that focus on medical care. Furthermore, it is also recognised as important to consider how to support the bereaved families of those who have committed suicide, as well as the medical staff who have lost patients due to suicide.
In this symposium, experts in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry will discuss how to approach the issue of suicide. From the perspective of a psychoanalytic approach, understanding high-risk suicide patients will involve dealing with the issues such as unconscious destructive urges, envy, hatred, resistance to treatment, and the death drive. Those left bereaved by suicide suffer intense emotions such as the pain of loss, unconscious guilt, shame, a sense of persecution, and self-punishment.
In the presence of these practical difficulties and difficult emotions, it is also important to consider how to support the patient and how to manage the relationship between the therapist and patient so that they can both survive. It is also inevitable that we will consider the therapist's countertransference.
The theme is how the therapist can handle the complex and difficult issue of suicide, as described above, and how they can continue to perform their functions while overcoming their pain. We would like to confirm what psychotherapy can do for suicide and deepen our thinking about the challenges that still exist.
We live in a society that is threatened by rapid social change, war and disaster. Despite advances in biological psychiatry and various social initiatives to address suicide, suicide will never disappear.
In addition to public health approaches, there are also approaches to high-risk individuals that focus on medical care. Furthermore, it is also recognised as important to consider how to support the bereaved families of those who have committed suicide, as well as the medical staff who have lost patients due to suicide.
In this symposium, experts in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry will discuss how to approach the issue of suicide. From the perspective of a psychoanalytic approach, understanding high-risk suicide patients will involve dealing with the issues such as unconscious destructive urges, envy, hatred, resistance to treatment, and the death drive. Those left bereaved by suicide suffer intense emotions such as the pain of loss, unconscious guilt, shame, a sense of persecution, and self-punishment.
In the presence of these practical difficulties and difficult emotions, it is also important to consider how to support the patient and how to manage the relationship between the therapist and patient so that they can both survive. It is also inevitable that we will consider the therapist's countertransference.
The theme is how the therapist can handle the complex and difficult issue of suicide, as described above, and how they can continue to perform their functions while overcoming their pain. We would like to confirm what psychotherapy can do for suicide and deepen our thinking about the challenges that still exist.