The complexityof suicide, following Winnicott’s vision: an account of a clinical case and its supervision

Abstract

This article consists of an account of a clinical case involving suicide attempts, which was psychoanalytically treated, following Winnicott’s perspective. In a second moment, it relates the supervision of the same case, articulating its symptoms to the patient’s life history, proposes a psychopathological diagnosis to it e analyses the psychoanalytical therapy, carried out up to then. The purpose is to illuminate the complexity involving suicide attempts and its therapeutics.