[Attemted suicide in adolescents].

The suicidal history of 91 adolescents aged between 14 and 25 years is examined. There are predominantly crises of juvenile development, abnormal young personalities, neurotic depression and psychoses. The questions of broken-home-situations or chronic conflicts and actual motives leading to the suicide attempts are analyzed. Psychoanalytic aspects, the various tendencies leading to suicide attempts and problems of contemporary history and prophylaxis are discussed.