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Delusional depression and suicide
Author(s) -
Wolfersdorf M.,
Keller F.,
Steiner B.,
Hole G.
Publication year - 1987
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.1600-0447.1987.tb05619.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychiatry , psychology , clinical psychology , suicide prevention , suicidal behavior , delusional disorder , delusion , poison control , medicine , psychosis , medical emergency , economics , macroeconomics
After a short survey of the relevant literature, the authors discuss the significance of delusional depression symptoms for suicidality, whereby they do not regard such symptoms alone as a sufficient condition for classifying a delusional patient as suicidal. In a comparison of delusional depressed patients with a non‐delusional control group (matched pairs), the former were adjudged to be significantly less suicidal than the control group and did not differ from the control group in regard to suicide frequency.