Depression, anxiety, and psychological defense in attempted suicide: A pilot study using PORT
(2004) In Archives of Suicide Research 8(3). p.239-249- Abstract
- Depressive affect, anxiety, and psychological defenses were studied in the presented research with PORT, a projective test that exploits subliminal perception of object-relation images. Protocols of 20 hospitalized suicide attempters were compared to those of 20 matched controls, 34 previously studied non-suicidal depressed patients, 18 patients with panic attac, and 32 patients with borderline and psychotic disorders. The suicide attempters were anxious; their defenses resembled those seen in borderline pathology; depressive reactions were limited in symbolic content; reality testing was poor. The closeness between depression and anxiety in suicidality is further discussed throughout this article. A con¬stella¬tion of signs using the PORT... (More)
- Depressive affect, anxiety, and psychological defenses were studied in the presented research with PORT, a projective test that exploits subliminal perception of object-relation images. Protocols of 20 hospitalized suicide attempters were compared to those of 20 matched controls, 34 previously studied non-suicidal depressed patients, 18 patients with panic attac, and 32 patients with borderline and psychotic disorders. The suicide attempters were anxious; their defenses resembled those seen in borderline pathology; depressive reactions were limited in symbolic content; reality testing was poor. The closeness between depression and anxiety in suicidality is further discussed throughout this article. A con¬stella¬tion of signs using the PORT was hypothesized to be a marker for suicidality. The test is deemed useful for future research on suicide. (Less)
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- Titelman, David ; Nilsson, Alf LU ; Estari, Julia and Wasserman, Danuta
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- 2004
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- published
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- keywords
- projective tests, attempted suicide, depression, anxiety, psychoanalytic theory
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- Archives of Suicide Research
- volume
- 8
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 239 - 249
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- Routledge
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- scopus:17544370265
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- 1543-6136
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- 10.1080/13811110490436855
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- English
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title = {{Depression, anxiety, and psychological defense in attempted suicide: A pilot study using PORT}},
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