REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA ACERCA DO SUICÍDIO: UM ESTUDO À LUZ DA PSICANÁLISE

Abstract

The alarming number of suicides in all social classes and age groups - children, adolescents, adults and the elderly - is a clear evidence of a social and public health problem. The purpose of this work was to identify the contributions of Psychoanalysis on suicide, through a systematic review of the literature, with the purpose of knowing how this theme has been approached. This review used the PRISMA guidelines. The search was carried out in the Pepsic, Scielo, and Lilacs databases. The data were analyzed in Iramuteq, where a Descending Hierarchical Classification was performed. From a total of 115 articles, only 25 articles remained for analysis. The work pointed out a greater production of studies on the theme in the year 2019 and a scarcity in 2020. Research in other languages is suggested in order to understand how the theme presents itself in other societies and cultures.