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A Repertory Grid Study of the Meaning and Consequences of a Suicidal Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Anthony Ryle
Anthony Ryle*
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University Health Service, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex
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Maddison and Mackey, in their review article “Suicide, the Clinical Problem” (1966), emphasize “the interpersonal significance of suicide, a viewpoint which is complementary and not alternative to an intensive study of the patient's intrapsychic life.” They continue: “More than usual attention needs to be given to the specially significant individual to whom the suicidal patient is often ambivalently bound in a symbiotic relationship, for highly relevant psychopathology will very frequently be found in this person …”.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 505 , December 1967 , pp. 1393 - 1403
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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