1 - INTRO

• Allport (1954). The Historical Background of Modern Social Psychology

  • Social psychology is “the scientific investigation of how the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others” (p. 5)
• • Complex emotional needs (CEN)
  • Previously, borderline personality disorder (BPD)
  • Now 'Personality Disorder' (ICD-11), characterised by:

  1. Impairments in functioning of the self
  2. Problems in interpersonal functioning
  3. Which "manifest in maladaptive patterns of cognition, emotional experience, emotional expression, and behavior"

  • Borderline pattern included for 'clinical utility' and if people might respond to certain treatments
• Kreitman et al. (1969). Parasuicide

  • An event that "simulates or mimics" suicide
  • The 'attempted suicide' patient is
  • "Not usually addressing himself to the task of self-destruction"
  • "Rarely can his behaviour be construed in any simple sense as oriented primarily towards death"
• Kreitman et al. (1970). ‘Parasuicide’

  • Clinical need to delineate between behaviour
  • Attempted suicide causes “untold mischief and confusion, especially among general practitioners and other non-psychiatrists" p. 460
• • Skegg (2005). Self-harm
  • Cara (2015). Defining and refining self-harm
  • Deliberate self-harm → Non-suicidal self-injury
  • Terminology varies and use is often unspecific