Suicide as Escape from Self.

Baumeister, Roy F.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Suicide as Escape from Self.

Baumeister, Roy F.

Psychological Review, v97 n1 p90-113 Jan 1990

Suicide is analyzed as a motivation to escape from adversive self-awareness. The causal chain is traced from initial failures that are attributed internally because of a cognitively deconstructed state. (SLD)

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Causal Models, Cognitive Processes, Failure, Motivation, Self Concept, Self Injurious Behavior, Suicide

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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