Abstract

Suicidal impulses in chronically ill patients can be clinically differentiated from the rationally exercised right to refuse further treatment. Examination of the immediate and historical dynamics of the patient's interaction with himself, his family, and the health care system, with particular regard to the affective tones associated with these interactions, forms the basis for making this differentiation.

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