Suicidal attempts and incomplete suicides: therapies, prevention of repeated suicidal actions

Resume:Suicidal behavior, due to the severity of the medical, socio-psychological and economic consequences, is ranked as not only general medical, but also global problems of mankind. According to the WHO, the global suicide rate has increased by 60% over the past 45 years. The highest suicide risk is in the population of Eastern Europe (WHO, 2002, 2003), where the suicide rate ranges from 3.8 to 40 per 100,000 population. According to modern concepts, a combination of various factors - biological, personality-psychological, social-environmental, ethnocultural, stressful, psychopathological - is involved in the genesis of suicidal behavior, which makes it possible to consider suicidology as a multidisciplinary field of knowledge.