Tentative de suicide et suicide, les tragédies de l'adolescence

Abstract

An attempted suicide indicates certain latent difficulties of a family system to adapt when confronted to the departure of one of its members. It happen within a framework where autonomy is experienced as a threat to the whole family. The suicide in itself reveals the family inability to evolve and to adapt itself to the surrounding ecosystem that constitutes a dynamic space in constant evolution. In such cases, autonomy is equivalent to death implying an impossible adaptation of the family to a world in perpetual motion. © De Boeck Université. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.