Borderline and Narcissistic Conditions

Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2021-22, 3rd Block — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Scot Gibson, MD
Kelly Lippman, LMHC

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March 7, 2022 — Psychoanalytic Conceptions of Suicide

[36 pages]

Maltsberger, J.T. (2004). The descent into suicide. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 85(3):653-667.

John Maltsberger was a psychoanalyst and suicidologist who drew attention to the aspects of affect flooding and related self-disintegration within suicidal crises. His four-part model of suicidal collapse brings nuance and specificity to the multiple interlocking internal aspects of a suicidal moment.

Sharma, S. & Fowler, J.C. (2018) Restoring Hope for the Future: Mentalization-Based Therapy in the Treatment of a Suicidal Adolescent, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 71:1, 55-75.

Sharma and Fowler apply Maltsberger’s framework to the treatment of a suicidal adolescent, while also noting the particular developmental amplification of affect storms within adolescence.