ABSTRACT
In recent years there has been a substantial number of articles on suicidal adolescents, primarily from the viewpoints of epidemiology and assessment of suicidal risk. The literature on the understanding and treatment of the suicidal adolescent is sparse but growing. Hendin (1991) wrote that the current revival of interest in the psychodynamics of suicide derives, in part, from the increasing realization that assigning to a patient a diagnosis that carries a high risk of suicide is not in itself an explanation for suicide.
