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ABSTRACT:This paper addresses itself to the reasons why suicide tends to repeat in some families. Factors include entire family exposure to stresses, grief, and guilt induced by the suicide, the provision of a model by the original suicide, suicidogenic interpersonal styles in families, suicidogenic child‐rearing practice, and innate predispositions to depressio

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1977.tb00884.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:Suicidal behavior, specifically threats of suicide and acts of self‐injury and self‐poisoning, are interpreted by suicidologists as acts of communication directed to some person important in the social life of the potential victim. Four groups of married couples were studied using a measure of their marital communication habits and an intensive personal interview. These groups included wives who (a) were volunteer workers in a suicide prevention center, (b) were experiencing marital problems but were not actively suicidal, (c) had called the suicide prevention center and made a verbal threat of suicide, and (d) had actually committed acts of self‐injury or self‐poisoning for which they received emergency room or hospital treatment. Analysis of the data revealed that the quality of interpersonal communication between spouses significantly deteriorated across the groups as the degree of suicidal behavior increased. Descriptive data are discussed for their relevance to clinicians who, if they correctly interpret the meaning of the “suicide attempt,” may be in a position to facilitate its being a suc

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1977.tb00885.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:Suicide attempters are a high‐risk group in relation to ultimately completing suicide and are usually “treated and released” with little or no follow‐up care. A 4‐month follow‐up outreach program for suicide attempters seen in the emergency room was developed with an emphasis on continuity and quantity of “treatment” received. Suicide attempters were randomly assigned to the “follow‐up outreach” or “normal” treatment programs. Measures for the evaluation of effectiveness were (a) incidence of suicide reattempts and purposive accidents and (b) prevalence of drug misuse and excessive use of alcohol. The experimental group showed a statistically significant reduction in suicide reattempts and excessive use of alcohol, while the reduction of drug abuse, although not statistically significant, did conform to a trend indicating improvement. Purposive accidents occurred at a relatively equ

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1977.tb00886.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:Suicides in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, for 1972–1975 are tabulated by year, month of year, day of week, lunar phase, and holiday occurrence. Only lunar phase demonstrates a significant (p<.01) variation in suicide rate; an increase is observed in this sample with respect to new moon phase but not for full moon phase. Explanations for this finding are considered, but the precise reasons remain unknow

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1977.tb00887.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:In complicated ways depression is related to suicide. If the national climate could be made depressive by mass media coverage of a depressing event (for example, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy), the suicide rate theoretically ought to increase, unless depression were not related to suicide during time of great national focus. This hypothesis was investigated by using a questionnaire survey requesting information concerning suicide rate for the period November 22–30 for the 17 years 1956–1972. Sixty‐one cities were randomly selected and contacted; 29 responded. A total of 74 suicides—48 males and 26 females—were reported during the 17 years studied. The hypothesis that more suicides should have occurred during 1963 was not supported. No suicides occurred during November 22–30 in 1963, the year of the Kennedy assassination. The results were significant at the .01 level. The finding that during a time of focused national crisis fewer suicides occur coincides with the findings of Durkheim

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1977.tb00888.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:Suicide is an emotional, complex event, the causes of which are not well understood. Hence, the subject of suicide cannot be adequately treated in an objective, simplified, scientific discussion without ignoring its essentially personal nature. In an attempt to add some insights into the personal dimension of suicide to analytical theory considered in the following pages, subjective, spontaneous thoughts, both philosophical and indulgingly emotional, have been included. The subjective thoughts have been separated from the theoretical discussions and will be found in the sections labeled with a lettera(e.g.,iii aandv a) following the theory sections to which they most closely relate. A reading of these extra sections is extraneous to the understanding of the suicidal theory presented here, and they have been included only for the reader's interest.

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1977.tb00889.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1977.tb00890.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY