SUICIDIO Y TRASTORNO MENTAL: UNA CRÍTICA NECESARIA
2020
This article analyzes, from a critical and reflexive approach, the relationship between suicide and mental disorder. The World
Health Organization figure reporting that 90% of suicides are due to a mental disorder is debated. It is concluded that an uncritical
assumption of this figure implies: 1) a confusion between a risk factor and a psychiatric causality, 2) a reductionist idea of suicide
and suicidal behavior seen as a “symptom”, a “natural” evolution, or even as a mental disorder in itself, and 3) finally, it involves
the cancellation of the intimate nucleus of the suicidal phenomenon that is the decision-action capacity of a person-in-a-context.
These conclusions help us to think about suicide in a way that goes beyond the biomedical approach and the diagnostic factor.
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