[Relation between development of the motives for acute suicidal reactions and the course of patients' lives].

Under examination there were 70 subjects who had attempted suicide. The probands showed acute situational reactions. The motives to the suicidal attempts and their relation to the probands' systems of values were examined. It was found that inability to settle adequately some conflicts was due to pathological traits in the character of those persons, as well as to their improper education. Psychogenic situations that touched on vulnerable features of the patients' personality provoked decompensation in the form of the suicidal attempts. The author revealed 57 factors of suicide risk and developed a method for determining the probability of primary and repeated suicidal reactions.