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R. Rubenstein, R. Moses, T. Lidz (1958)
On attempted suicide.A.M.A. archives of neurology and psychiatry, 79 1
E. Robins, S. Gassner, J. Kayes, R. Wilkinson, G. Murphy (1959)
The communication of suicidal intent: a study of 134 consecutive cases of successful (completed) suicide.The American journal of psychiatry, 115 8
N. Kessel, G. Grossman (1961)
Suicide in AlcoholicsBritish Medical Journal, 2
S. Levy, R. Southcombe (1953)
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M. Guttmacher, H. Weihofen (1953)
Psychiatry and the lawJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 120
P. Rhode (1961)
Schizophrenia Therapy in a General HospitalBrit Med J, 2
E. Stengel (1959)
Attempted Suicide
Abstract It is often assumed that mental disorder is a usual, if not invariable antecedent to suicide. However, studies based on data derived from coroner's records, postmortem interviews with relatives, and like sources have given estimates of the proportion of individuals with overt psychiatric disorder at the time of the suicidal act which vary from 20% 1 to 94%,5 and it seems likely that such a wide divergence stems more from differing criteria accepted as evidence of mental disorder than from true differences of sampling, culture etc. It is indeed difficult to formulate and apply reliable criteria of mental health even for a living population. Most, however, would agree that admission to a psychiatric hospital provides an objective if crude measure of the presence of overt psychiatric disorder. The question may be asked—"To what extent does the occurrence of a psychiatric illness necessitating admission References 1. Guttmacher, M. S., and Weihofen, H.: Psychiatry and the Law , New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1952. 2. Kessel, W. I. N., and Grossman, G.: Suicide in Alcoholics , Brit Med J 2:1671-1672, 1961.Crossref 3. Levy, S., and Southcombe, R. H.: Suicide in a State Hospital for the Mentally Ill , J Nerv Ment Dis 117:504-514, 1953.Crossref 4. Rhode, P., and Sargant, W.: Schizophrenia Therapy in a General Hospital , Brit Med J 2:67-70, 1961.Crossref 5. Robins, E.; Gassner, S.; Kayes, J.; Wilkinson, R. H.; and Murphy, G. E.: The Communication of Suicidal Intent: A Study of 134 Consecutive Cases of Successful (Completed) Suicide , Amer J Psychiat 115:724-733, 1959. 6. Stengel, E., and Cook, N. G.: Attempted Suicide , London: Chapman and Hall, 1959.
Archives of General Psychiatry – American Medical Association
Published: Jan 1, 1964
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