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SUICIDES IN A GROUP OF PATIENTS WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Author(s) -
Ettlinger Ruth W.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1964.tb07490.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , citation , psychology , medicine , library science , computer science
In the abundant literature on suicidal acts the authors have usually started out from the conception that suicide ( = s.) and attempted suicide (= a. s.) are in principle the same phenomenon and differ only inasmuch as suicide ends in death. It was u. Andics (1938) who first drew attention to the fact that, from a phenomenological point of view, perhaps they represented different actions. Subsequently, Stengel ( 1952) has convincingly shown that attempted suicide frequently, but not always is planned precisely as an attempt. Shneidman & Farberow (1961) have pointed out that a. s.-patients and s.-patients differ with regard to a number of statistical background-factors, e. g. sex and age distribution, and methods. I t is noteworthy that the literature on the prognosis quoad vitam and quoad suicidium after a. s. is so scanty. The most important works have been tabulated.