Refine
Language
- Serbian (23) (remove)
Document Type
- Articles (10)
- Books (9)
- Reviews (3)
- Collections (1)
Some theoretical and practical problems of suicide prevention in hospitalized psychotic patients
(1975)
Suicide rates in Yugoslavia of 12.4 in 1964 and 13.9 in 1969 are reported, with variations of 2.3 to 29.7 in different parts of the country. Stengal's view of committed and attempted suicide is critically examined as well as theories of Freud, K. Lorenz, and E. FROMM on aggression and destructiveness. Data are presented on 4,000 psychiatric patients, 625 with presuicidal syndrome, 226 of whom had attempted suicide before admission. Four out of 4,000 patients committed suicide. A liberal regime in psychiatric institutions is suggested as a means of preventing suicide by patients. In cases of severe depression ECT is needed.
Discusses the social aspects of psychotherapy and the history of humanistic psychotherapy based on the works of S. Freud, C. H. Cooley, E. FROMM, and T. Szasz. Psychotherapy cannot exist in a social vacuum, although its central function is to help the individual with personality problems. Social anthropology deals with the problems of different social classes, i.e., those social activities that are part of psychotherapy itself. This anthropological orientation needs to be integrated into the practice of psychotherapy.
The theory of Erich Fromm considers man on special type of social character which makes him to look upon other man as wares, and to run away from freedom and love. This kind of society degenerated man's humane potentials and with many mechanisms, turned him away from the so-called productive orientation. While speaking about man Erich Fromm certainly has woman in mind too. His whole work shows the way he describes man-woman relationships and a place he attributes to love. In the socalled productive love he found the only 'sound' reply to question of human existence, for such a love fulfills basic human need for outer personal union and yet remain two, enriching their personalities at the same time. Erich Fromm did not consider man-woman relationships in social production, education and politics, but he did consider personal, marital, and family spheres. Since the focus of Fromm's theory is man, it is society that must be adapted to him, and reality of modern capitalism with people considered as wares, automate without their own thoughts and emotions, inclined to possession and quantification, must be changed.