School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin, 1925 San Jacinto Blvd STOP D3500, Austin, Texas 78712-0358, USA.
Transcult Psychiatry. 2012 Nov;49(5):718-34. doi: 10.1177/1363461512463262. Epub 2012 Oct 16.
The high rates of suicide attempts among adolescent Hispanic females in the United States have been well established by epidemiological and clinical studies. In this paper, we review the research history of Latina suicide attempts and their characteristics. Then we apply multi-faceted conceptual and empirical criteria found in the anthropological and psychiatric literature about cultural idioms of distress to the suicide attempts of young Latinas. We contrast the suicide-attempt phenomenon to the well-known ataque de nervios and propose that the phenomenon may reflect a developmental or cultural variant of the ataque. The attempt-as-idiom proposition is intended to invite discussion that can deepen our understanding of the cultural roots of the suicide attempts and their possible designation as cultural idiom. Establishing the meaning of suicide attempts within a cultural perspective can assist psychological and psychiatric research and clinical interventions.
美国青少年西班牙裔女性自杀未遂的高发生率已被流行病学和临床研究充分证实。在本文中，我们回顾了拉丁裔女性自杀未遂及其特征的研究历史。然后，我们将人类学和精神病学文献中关于痛苦的文化习语的多方面概念和经验标准应用于年轻拉丁裔女性的自杀未遂。我们将自杀未遂现象与著名的 ataqué de nervios 进行了对比，并提出这一现象可能反映了 ataqué 的一种发展或文化变体。尝试作为习语的命题旨在邀请讨论，可以加深我们对自杀未遂的文化根源的理解，并可能将其指定为文化习语。从文化角度确定自杀未遂的意义可以帮助心理和精神病学研究和临床干预。
