Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents from a Logotherapeutic Perspective

There are several attempts by psychological schools to explain phenomena such as suicide. Ideation is a variable that persists in many human beings. This case study was conducted from the humanistic-logotherapeutic approach with an adolescent who attempted suicide, proposing a psychotherapeutic intervention with principles from these schools. Instruments such as the psychological interview, Beck's suicidal ideation scale, Beck's Depression Inventory, the empty chair technique and the life line were used, which allowed us to obtain the necessary information for the therapeutic procedure. As a result of this case study, the areas of the adolescent were explored in depth from his experiences, emotions and experiences, it was possible to understand in a more assertive way what were the motivations that led him to the extreme of committing the act of suicide, it also allowed us to work in a reduced area of motives and a lesser regulatory force of the same on the behavior, without focusing so much on the act, if not in the phenomenological understanding of his worldview.