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On Attempted Suicide

On Attempted Suicide Abstract Stengel1,2 has demonstrated the validity and the usefulness of distinguishing attempted suicide from suicide. His work has opened the way to the study of attempted suicide as a separate problem and has made it necessary to question the applicability of knowledge of suicide to attempted suicide. We were stimulated by this formulation and decided to undertake a study of suicide attempts seen in a general hospital. In our efforts to understand them, we found our attention directed primarily to the motivation, the interpersonal communicative functions, and the social effects of attempted suicide. Procedure We studied the patients brought to the New Haven Hospital emergency room after attempting suicide between July 1, 1955 and June 30, 1956. It is customary that the psychiatric staff see these patients in the emergency room. During the year of this investigation we saw 44 people who had attempted suicide, and they comprise the series References 1. Each tablet contains 5 mg. of d-amphetamine sulfate and 32 mg. of amobarbital sodium. 2. Dr. Alfred Gross looked to the elucidation of these "rebirth phenomena" as one means of graining a clearer understanding of suicide. 3. Stengel, E.: Enquiries into Attempted Suicide , Proc. Roy. Soc. Med. 45:613-620, 1952. 4. Stengel, E.: The Social Effects of Attempted Suicide , Canad. M. A. J. 74:116-120, 1956. 5. Weiss, J. M. A.: Suicide: An Epidemiologic Analysis , Psychiat. Quart. 28:225-253, 1954.Crossref 6. Dublin, L. L., and Bunzel, B.: To Be or Not to Be , New York, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933. 7. Weiss, J. M. A.: The Gamble with Death in Attempted Suicide , Psychiatry 20:17-25, 1957. 8. Freud, S.: Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria , in Collected Papers , London, International Psychoanalytical Press, 1925, Vol. III. 9. Durkheim, E.: Suicide: A Study in Sociology , translated by J. A. Spaulding and G. Simpson, Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press, 1951. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png A.M.A. Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry American Medical Association

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American Medical Association
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0096-6886
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10.1001/archneurpsyc.1958.02340010121011
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Abstract Stengel1,2 has demonstrated the validity and the usefulness of distinguishing attempted suicide from suicide. His work has opened the way to the study of attempted suicide as a separate problem and has made it necessary to question the applicability of knowledge of suicide to attempted suicide. We were stimulated by this formulation and decided to undertake a study of suicide attempts seen in a general hospital. In our efforts to understand them, we found our attention directed primarily to the motivation, the interpersonal communicative functions, and the social effects of attempted suicide. Procedure We studied the patients brought to the New Haven Hospital emergency room after attempting suicide between July 1, 1955 and June 30, 1956. It is customary that the psychiatric staff see these patients in the emergency room. During the year of this investigation we saw 44 people who had attempted suicide, and they comprise the series References 1. Each tablet contains 5 mg. of d-amphetamine sulfate and 32 mg. of amobarbital sodium. 2. Dr. Alfred Gross looked to the elucidation of these "rebirth phenomena" as one means of graining a clearer understanding of suicide. 3. Stengel, E.: Enquiries into Attempted Suicide , Proc. Roy. Soc. Med. 45:613-620, 1952. 4. Stengel, E.: The Social Effects of Attempted Suicide , Canad. M. A. J. 74:116-120, 1956. 5. Weiss, J. M. A.: Suicide: An Epidemiologic Analysis , Psychiat. Quart. 28:225-253, 1954.Crossref 6. Dublin, L. L., and Bunzel, B.: To Be or Not to Be , New York, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933. 7. Weiss, J. M. A.: The Gamble with Death in Attempted Suicide , Psychiatry 20:17-25, 1957. 8. Freud, S.: Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria , in Collected Papers , London, International Psychoanalytical Press, 1925, Vol. III. 9. Durkheim, E.: Suicide: A Study in Sociology , translated by J. A. Spaulding and G. Simpson, Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press, 1951.

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A.M.A. Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry – American Medical Association

Published: Jan 1, 1958

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