The Attachment Function of Acute and Chronic Suicidal Illness in the Psychotherapy of an Adult Female Incest Survivor.
This paper presents the attachment-focused psychotherapy of a suicidal adult woman with a history of paternal incest, paternal suicide, and maternal death; the latter provoked the patient's near lethal overdose. Psychotherapy with this patient posed formidable clinical challenges because killing her...
| Published in: | Clinical Social Work Journal Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 49 - 61 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2014
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