Half in love with easeful death: the meaning of chronic suicidality in borderline personality disorder.

摘要: Chronic suicidality is a central feature of borderline personality disorder. While suicidal thoughts and attempts are highly prevalent in patients, completion relatively unpredictable. Self-cutting seems to function as means affective regulation. In disorder, performs set psychological functions can sometimes become "a way life." Strategies developed for acutely patients may not be effective chronic suicidality. Since there no evidence that hospitalization prevents completion, an ambulatory approach the management chronically most useful.