{"title":"The subacute hospital treatment of the borderline patient: III. Management of suicidal crisis by family intervention.","authors":"M R Lansky","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A family approach to suicidal crises in hospitalized borderline patients is described. The approach is aimed not only at the acute crises, but at the likelihood that repetitive, panic-inducing suicidal episodes provoke shame-producing over-regulation in the short run or exhaustion of support systems (family and treatment team) in the long run. An emergency family session with a hospitalized patient in acute suicidal crisis is presented. Subacute hospital treatment must respond to these crises mindful of long-term as well as acute risks. Subacute hospitalization allows for family intervention to buttress support systems for the long term task of caring for the suicidal borderline patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":77808,"journal":{"name":"The Hillside journal of clinical psychiatry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Hillside journal of clinical psychiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A family approach to suicidal crises in hospitalized borderline patients is described. The approach is aimed not only at the acute crises, but at the likelihood that repetitive, panic-inducing suicidal episodes provoke shame-producing over-regulation in the short run or exhaustion of support systems (family and treatment team) in the long run. An emergency family session with a hospitalized patient in acute suicidal crisis is presented. Subacute hospital treatment must respond to these crises mindful of long-term as well as acute risks. Subacute hospitalization allows for family intervention to buttress support systems for the long term task of caring for the suicidal borderline patient.