Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Never Ending Story: Or the Problem as Solution

The Never Ending Story: Or the Problem as Solution Ben Furman and Tapani Ahola 'In every cloud, there is a silver lining' 1 received a phone call from Mike's aunt, who was so worried about her nephew that she wanted to refer him to me for psychotherapy. She told me that Mike was a 17 year old high school student who had been doing well. However, a month ago he had attempted to kill himself by taking an overdose of bentsodiatsepines. There had been no history of psychiatric problems so Mike's suicide attempt had come as a shock to everyone. She also told me that a few months prior to his suicide attempt, Mike had been told that the man he knew as his father was actually his stepfather. He had then met with his biological father briefly; however, this man seemed uninterested in having a relationship with Mike. Mike's aunt believed that this incident, along with the stress of preparing for his university entrance examinations which is a crucial test for a Finnish student, had triggered off his suicide attempt. 1 said 1 would be willing to meet with Mike but that he would have to contact me himself in order to have an appointment. A http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

The Never Ending Story: Or the Problem as Solution

Download PDF
3 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/the-never-ending-story-or-the-problem-as-solution-9YJ50gp3Ff

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 1991 Australian Association of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/j.1467-8438.1991.tb00840.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Ben Furman and Tapani Ahola 'In every cloud, there is a silver lining' 1 received a phone call from Mike's aunt, who was so worried about her nephew that she wanted to refer him to me for psychotherapy. She told me that Mike was a 17 year old high school student who had been doing well. However, a month ago he had attempted to kill himself by taking an overdose of bentsodiatsepines. There had been no history of psychiatric problems so Mike's suicide attempt had come as a shock to everyone. She also told me that a few months prior to his suicide attempt, Mike had been told that the man he knew as his father was actually his stepfather. He had then met with his biological father briefly; however, this man seemed uninterested in having a relationship with Mike. Mike's aunt believed that this incident, along with the stress of preparing for his university entrance examinations which is a crucial test for a Finnish student, had triggered off his suicide attempt. 1 said 1 would be willing to meet with Mike but that he would have to contact me himself in order to have an appointment. A

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 1991

There are no references for this article.