The Relationship Between Professional Identity and Suicide fromthe Perspective of Literature and Phenomenological-ExistentialPsychology

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between the issue of professional identity and the motivation for suicide, based on literature and phenomenological-existential psychology. For this, we use the phenomenological-hermeneutic method, inspired by Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, in its three moments: reconstruction, destruction and construction. We seek, in the reconstruction, to research the investigated theme, through a bibliographic review of scientific articles that establish the relationship between professional identity and suicide. We use a descriptive work linked to the words identity and suicide.
The search for these articles occurred on the basis of terminology
of the Virtual Health Library in Psychology (BVS Psi Brasil), in the
Annual Review of Psychology and Google Scholar. Starting from the
literary texts of Machado de Assis and Balzac, we then proceeded to
the destruction of the prevailing idea that, there is necessarily a causal
relationship between the phenomenon of suicide and the loss of professional
identity. Finally, we seek to construct the meanings of voluntary
death, presented in a concrete situation, based on phenomenological-
existential psychology. We conclude that the decision to end
one’s own life, can occur under multiple dimensions, in the unfolding
of existence, in which a person has always been articulated and
involved with and between the singular and the universal.