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Abstract This is a qualitative-quantitative research, carried out in 2019, in Brasília – DF, Brazil. It aimed to verify and describe the social representations of psychology students about suicide. Evocation questionnaires with justification in the free field were used. The data were interpreted with statistical procedures proposed by the Prototypical Analysis. The participantes were 170 academics from the second to the fourth period, from a private university. The students were between 18 and 50 years old, 89% were women and 11% were men. Among the main values: Class 1: 19.6%; Class 2: 14.44; Class 3: 26.1; Class 4: 26.8 and Class 5: 13.1); and, the data from interviews allowed the construction of two categories: Depression and social support and Suffering and weakness. The social representations of suicide for students of psychology are structured based on the following elements of the central nucleus: death, pain, suffering, depression, fear, pressure and sadness. However, when participants are asked to evoke terms that they attribute to colleagues, the elements of pressure and fear no longer appear, but the word weakness does.

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