Pfeffer C R
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1981 Spring;11(1):43-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1981.tb00998.x.
This paper proposes that children who are especially vulnerable to parental suicide have not resolved earlier developmental issues of separation-individuation. Five children, ages 6 to 12, were studied intensively. Parental suicide during the child's latency age period has profound influences on children's ego development and character formation because during this time childhood ego functioning is rapidly maturing and superego functions are developing. The trauma of parental suicide is heightened when difficulties for the surviving parent in mourning interfere with open discussion between the parent and child about the death. Parental suicide may stimulate childhood suicidal impulses if the child identifies with and idealizes the dead parent and has wishes of reuniting with the deceased.
本文提出，特别容易受到父母自杀影响的儿童尚未解决早期分离个体化的发展问题。对五名年龄在6至12岁的儿童进行了深入研究。儿童潜伏期时父母自杀对儿童自我发展和性格形成有深远影响，因为在此期间儿童的自我功能正在迅速成熟，超我功能也在发展。当幸存的父母在哀悼过程中遇到困难，干扰了父母与孩子之间关于死亡的公开讨论时，父母自杀的创伤就会加剧。如果孩子认同并理想化死去的父母，并有与死者团聚的愿望，父母自杀可能会激发儿童的自杀冲动。
