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ABSTRACTA total of 499 patients hospitalized for suicide attempts (attempters) between 1970 and 1975 were followed until 1982; of this group, 28 (5.6%) eventually committed suicide. Six (14.6%) of the 41 patients who had been interrupted during their initial attempts eventually committed suicide, whereas only 22 (4.8%) of the 458 patients who had not been interrupted eventually committed suicide. The interrupted attempters were approximately three times more likely to commit suicide than the uninterrupted attempters.

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00146.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis paper describes a preliminary study examining the relative power of measures of perceived family support, hopelessness, and depression for the classification of suicide attempters and nonattempters in a series of 8‐ to 13‐year‐old psychiatric inpatients. Results of a stepwise discriminant‐function analysis indicated that a measure of a child's perceived family support discriminated between suicide attempters and nonattempters with an 88% accuracy rate. The addition of measures of hopelessness and depression at later steps did not lead to improved classification. The results are interpreted as providing strong support for a link between suicide attempts in children and perceptions of low family

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00147.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe impact of completed suicide on the surviving family was studied. Thirteen widows whose husbands had died through suicide were compared with 13 widows whose husbands had died in accidents. The widows' views of their families' functioning, and the extent of life stress and psychiatric symptoms experienced by the widows, were assessed. Interview data suggested more guilt and blaming in suicide survivor families. However, on standardized questionnaires, suicide survivors showed no more family dysfunction, life stress, or psychiatric symptomatology than accident survivors. Both groups acknowledged clinically significant levels of symptoms. The findings raise questions about the validity of generalizations based on the clinical literature regarding the uniquely pathogenic impact of suicide on family functioning.

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00148.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTChanges in the age patterns of U.S. male and female suicide rates from 1934 to 1983 are examined, using official suicide data. Among whites, the age patterns of male and female suicide rates have becomelessconcordant since about 1960. In contrast, the age patterns of nonwhite male and female suicide rates have becomemoreconcordant since the mid‐1950s. A review of sociological theories of suicide identifies problems in accounting for such changes—problems stemming in part from what has been a theoretical emphasis on cross‐sectional rela

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00149.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTAokigahara‐jukai (Jukai), a dense forest at the foot of Mt. Fuji, is well known as the leading suicide site in Japan, with about 30 people committing suicide there every year. This paper describes Jukai and three cases of psychogenic amnesia following attempted suicide there. Amnesia as an alternative to suicide and the significance of death in Jukai are discusse

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00150.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe relationship of the extent of gun ownership and the strictness of gun control laws to suicide and homicide rates in the nine major geographic regions of the United States was explored. Gun ownership, rather than the strictness of gun control laws, was found to be the strongest correlate of the rates of suicide and homicide by guns. Regions with a higher extent of gun ownership had higher rates of suicide and homicide by firearms.

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00151.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis letter first discusses two meanings of a “right to die.” In the popular sense, the term refers to a right to refuse life‐sustaining treatment. In the strict sense, the term signifies an affirmative right to obtain death—a right to suicide.The letter then explores the legal implications of a suicide right. This right would extend to competent adults, mature minors, and probably also incompetent persons. Counselors would have to inform clients of the suicide option. Intervention to prevent suicide could trigger civil liability. Suicidal intentions would not justify involuntary commitment. Consent would become a defense to h

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00152.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00153.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00154.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1988.tb00155.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY