Abstract
Models of Understanding the Suicidal Phenomenon are Key to the Design of Prevention Programs in the 21st Century
Highlights
The conceptualization of suicidal behavior has changed throughout human history
We usually find in its development an articulation of polarized positions that converge in more global and integrating conceptualization models
In the case of suicidal behavior, since magical-religious ideas were abandoned in the 19th century, the concept of suicide has radically changed and made way to science and sociology [1]
Summary
The conceptualization of suicidal behavior has changed throughout human history. We know that suicidal behavior is a very old human phenomenon, which has been receiving diverse meanings through the different stages of history and cultures, being approached according to the conception and the meaning given to it. In the second half of the 19th century, it was in France that the concept of suicide acquired the fundamental feature that still characterizes it today: a psychopathological fact conditioned by social circumstances. We know that the therapeutic approach to any health problem in general, in suicidal behavior, requires the adequate description, definition, and global conceptualization of the phenomenon. This conceptualization must include, if possible, comprehensive explanatory and predictive models
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