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What the Suicide's Choice of Method Signifies:
David Lester,Aaron T. Beck +1 more
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In this paper, a sample of attempted suicides using cutting was compared with a sample using coma-producing drugs, in order to explore the correlates of choice of method for suicide, and the cutters were compared with the drugs.Abstract:
In order to explore correlates of choice of method for suicide, a sample of attempted suicides using cutting was compared with a sample of attempted suicides using coma-producing drugs. The cutters...read more
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Personality disorder and self-wounding.
Digby Tantam,Jane Whittaker +1 more
TL;DR: Repeated self-wounding is one criterion of borderline personality disorder but it is preferred to consider it an 'addictive' behaviour rather than an expression of a wider disorder.
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Suicidal people. One population or two
TL;DR: A continuing controversy in the field of suicidology has been how to characterize and label the subject under study, with Lester and Beck’,4 and Lester et aLs arguing that individuals who deliberately harm themselves are members of a single suicide population.
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Deliberate self-harm and childhood hyperactivity in junior high school students
Takashi Izutsu,Sakie Shimotsu,Toshihiko Matsumoto,Takayuki Okada,Akiko Kikuchi,Miwa Kojimoto,Hirofumi Noguchi,Kazuo Yoshikawa +7 more
TL;DR: The present study indicated that DSH is an important problem, even among children as young as junior high-school age, and an association between DSH and childhood hyperactivity was also suggested.
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Time trends in suicide mortality vary in choice of methods: an analysis of 145,865 fatal suicide cases in Germany 1991-2002.
TL;DR: The most frequently used suicide methods in both sexes were hanging, strangling or suffocation (HSS) with 55.8% in men and 39.9% in women, followed by self-poisoning as discussed by the authors.
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A comparison of self-injury and self-poisoning from the regional poisoning treatment centre, Edinburgh
A. D. T. Robinson,J. C. Duffy +1 more
TL;DR: Injury was found to be associated with the following clinical variables: personality disorder, previous psychiatric inpatient status, use of alcohol at the time of parasuicide and alcohol problems, and the social variables violence against others and received from relatives in the preceding 5 years, criminal record and unemployment.
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Hopelessness, depression, and attempted suicide.
TL;DR: A component of the syndrome of depression—the cognitive element of negative expectations—is identified as a stronger indicator of suicidal intent than depression itself, suggesting that approaches specifically designated to alleviate hopelessness may be successful in preventing suicide.
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Lethality of Suicidal Methods and Suicide Risk: Two Distinct Concepts:
TL;DR: In this paper, two objective measures of the lethality of 11 suicidal methods were defined: Mean Seriousness of suicidal incidents involving the method, and Probability of Death resulting from use of the method.
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The psychodynamics of suicide.
TL;DR: The psychodynamics of suicide helps to distinguish which patients with any given diagnosis are most at risk for suicide.
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The Methods of Suicide
TL;DR: A study of the Coroners' records of the 881 suicides which occurred throughout Wales in the 5 years 1951-55 as discussed by the authors showed that the most common methods of suicide were hanging (243) and gases (238), which accounted for more than half of the total.