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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 125, No. 3

Articles | September 01, 1968

Depersonalization and Self-Destruction

HERBERT WALTZER

Am J Psychiatry 1968;125:399-401.

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Assistant director, department of psychiatry, Queens Hospital Center-Hillside Hospital Affiliation, 82-68 164th St., Jamaica, N. Y. 11432, and clinical assistant professor, department of psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N. Y.

1968-69, American Psychiatric Association

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Depersonalization in conjunction with self-destructive behavior is more common than generally realized. Suicide attempts are often carried out while the individual is in a depersonalized state. As a result of ego-splitting there is partial withdrawal from both the external and intrapsychic worlds. The individual views the self-destructive act as though it was being carried out by another person.

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