Abstract

Our data comes from 32 interviews occurring during aone-year period with Greek patients who were seen within24 hours of a suicide attempt and after admission at thecasualty department of a Greek general hospital. At theend of the assessment the patient was asked to give a sui-cidal fantasy and speak about his thoughts and believesaround death.

Highlights

  • The aim of the research was to explore what kind of beliefs and fantasies about death and dying exist in suicide attempters in a Greek group of patients and whether there are differences or similarities with attempters of other cultural origin /background

  • International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour Meeting abstracts - A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here.

  • Our data comes from 32 interviews occurring during a one-year period with Greek patients who were seen within 24 hours of a suicide attempt and after admission at the casualty department of a Greek general hospital

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Introduction

The aim of the research was to explore what kind of beliefs and fantasies about death and dying exist in suicide attempters in a Greek group of patients and whether there are differences or similarities with attempters of other cultural origin /background. Address: 3rd Department of Psychiatry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Corresponding author from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour Thessaloniki, Greece.

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