https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.1994.1002
On some dimensions of suicide. The case of Emilia-Romagna.
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The present paper is concerned with the problem of suicide, moving from the specific case of Emilia-Romagna, the Italian region with the highest suicide rate. Tha data underline that the difference between suicides in the country and those in Emilia-Romagna is further increasing. Two different paths are indicated in order to analyses this phenomenon: an exitus and a reditus. The first one proposes sociological, psychological and philosophical interpretations. Using the frame firstly proposed by Durkheim, suicide is related to phenomena of breaking down, or weakness, at the level of ali the communities everyone lives within: the family, the religious community, the economical and the political ones. The analysis of the psychological dimension reveals a pre-suicidal syndrome, which is characterized by three aspects: existential closure, repressed auto-aggresiveness, suicide ideas. The philosophical dimension that is favourable to the suicide is a milieu in which the human being has every power on his life. The second way, a reditus, wants to be a way out, showing how to escape from suicide. In order to doing so, some effective interventions are analyzed, interventions al ali the levels - social, psychological and religious/philosophical - which the study has shown as important for a better understanding of this phenomenon.
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