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39 Years of Suicide Research: A Personal View
Author(s) -
Murphy George E.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1995.tb00238.x
Subject(s) - genius , meaning (existential) , psychology , work (physics) , applied psychology , social psychology , engineering ethics , psychotherapist , engineering , developmental psychology , mechanical engineering
This is a personal account of the beginning of clinical research in suicide in a hostile intellectual climate, of the methodology that has informed most of the subsequent research, and of the very durable findings of that work over 12 replications. The genius of the late Dr. Eli Robins lies at the base, not only of this research methodology, but of the diagnostic system that gives it clinical meaning. All of this is now commonplace, but it was not always so.