9410 results for suicide in The British Journal of Psychiatry & past titles
Suicide
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 152 / Issue 5 / May 1988
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 725-726
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- May 1988
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- (l974)A hundred cases of suicide: clinical aspects. British Journal of Psychiatry, 125,355-373. BECK, A. 1., RasNia, H. L. P. & LFrnuu, D. J. (eds) (1974) The Predictionof Suicide. Maryland: Charles Press. Buw, D. H. & MALTZBERGEK,J.T.(1983) The Practical Formulation of Suicide Risk. Cambridge, Mass: Firefly Press. CHORON, J. (l972)Suicide. New York: Charles Scribner& Sons. DUBLIN, L. I. (1963) Suicide: A Sociological and Statistical Study. NewYork:RonaldPress.
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The Prevalence of Suicide and Parasuicide (‘Attempted Suicide’) in Edinburgh
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 124 / Issue 578 / January 1974
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- 29 January 2018, pp. 36-41
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- January 1974
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- The results also confirmed that though parasuicide and suicide are different, they are clearly related. One per cent of detected para suicides committed suicide within the year of study. Forty-one per cent of detected cases of completed suicide had a history of parasuicide. Parasuicides are a very high risk group for eventual completed suicide and this has im ACKNOWLEDGEMEIm We shouldliketothankDr.H.
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Sex and suicide: Gender differences in suicidal behaviour
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 177 / Issue 6 / December 2000
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 484-485
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- December 2000
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- In males, DSH is more often associated with greater suicidal intent. It is interesting that in community samples, suicidal ideation is reported far more often by females than males (e.g. Paykel et al , 1974 ). It is well recognised that males tend to use violent means of both suicide and DSH more often than do females.
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Estimating Suicide Risk Among Attempted Suicides: II. Efficiency of Predictive Scales After the Attempt
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 144 / Issue 2 / February 1984
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- 29 January 2018, pp. 139-148
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- February 1984
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- Using two risk scales,one of 6 and the other of 18 socio-demographic and clinical items, weighted according to their value in discriminating between suicides and attempted suicides, and a rating of intent to die during the index suicide attempt, we followed up 1263attempted suicides for two years.
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Preventing suicide
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 182 / Issue 4 / April 2003
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- 02 January 2018, p. 365
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- April 2003
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- Elderly men, who suffer from far higher rates of suicide than women, reported very little benefit. Similarly, full employment would surely positively affect suicide attempt rates, but maybe not suicide mortality. The multi-disciplinary approach to suicide seems to me the conditio sine qua non under which prevention of this human tragedy can be effectively pursued.
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Preventing suicide
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 182 / Issue 4 / April 2003
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 364-365
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- April 2003
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- De Leo does, however, observe that ‘socio-economic events’ such as wars and economic fluctuations may ‘provoke effects’ that ‘would be incomparably bigger than any well-targeted anti-suicide initiative’. He recognised that in most Western countries, there is currently a ‘remarkable decline’ in youth suicide, which cannot be attributed to suicide prevention activities. Over the past 50 years, there have been synchronous, international trends in suicide (La Vecchia et al , 1994).
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Suicide in Brighton
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 121 / Issue 563 / October 1972
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- 29 January 2018, pp. 369-377
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- October 1972
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- suicide in Brighton.
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Changes in suicide rates or changes in suicide statistics
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 178 / Issue 1 / January 2001
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- 02 January 2018, p. 83
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- January 2001
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- Open verdicts should be therefore also considered before such an extreme decline in suicide rates is reported. Finally, Rihmer et al ( 2000 ) have thought about the possibility of a relationship between suicide rates in Hungary and recent improvements in mental health policy in that country.
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Suicide and religion
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 204 / Issue 4 / April 2014
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 254-255
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- April 2014
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- Suicide is one of the major causes of mortality in the young and the elderly and a College Report has identified suicide prevention as a priority for public health policy in the UK. 1 Attitudes towards suicide have generally been negative among all of the world’s major faith traditions, albeit mental disorder is usually understood as a mitigating ethical factor.
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Preventing suicide
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 182 / Issue 4 / April 2003
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 365-366
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- April 2003
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- In the case of suicide, for example, the worldwide optimal treatment of depression would bring only a minimal reduction in suicide rates (further details available from the author upon request). None the less, fighting depression is generally perceived as the K constant of suicide prevention in existing national strategies.
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A Suicidal Family
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 139 / Issue 1 / July 1981
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- 29 January 2018, pp. 68-69
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- July 1981
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- Although the female members showed no suicidal behaviour@ they did express suicidal ideas when depressed. The impulse to suicide seemed therefore partly determined by the occurrence of depressive illness but this does not plausibly explain such a high incidence of violent suicide in a single family. It therefore seems at least likely that there was a genetic predisposition to violent suicide in this family. Acknowledgements I thank Dr I. G.
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Suicide in Sudan
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 133 / Issue 4 / October 1978
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- 29 January 2018, pp. 380-381
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- October 1978
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- SUICIDE IN SUDAN DEAR SIR, We wish to report a study of 100 cases of suicide and attempted suicide in Khartoum Province, Sudan, during the period 1 June 1971 to 31 May 1975. It included all cases reported to the police of this Province. The reports were screened for age, sex, social status (including marital and economic position) and mental illness, including alcoholism and socio-economic stresses. Ten were consummated suicides (5 men, 5 women).
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Preventing suicide
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 182 / Issue 4 / April 2003
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- April 2003
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- I would like to comment on the editorial by De Leo ( 2002 ) which came to the conclusion that little is new in suicide prevention. Since nothing was mentioned about pharmacotherapeutic advances in suicide, I would like to take the opportunity to discuss recent information concerning the role of novel antipsychotics in the reduction of suicidality.
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Suicide in Physicians
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 150 / Issue 2 / February 1987
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 267-268
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- February 1987
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- Suicide in Physicians Sm: In their paper on “¿_Suicidein young doctors― (Journal, October 1986, 149, 475—478), Richings et al revisit the troubling problem of the apparent vulnerability of members of the medical profession to suicide.
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Suicidal ideation and short-term risk of suicide
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 172 / Issue 4 / April 1998
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- 03 January 2018, p. 365
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- April 1998
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- In our study, unstable suicidal ideation (i.e. daily fluctuation in suicidal ideation), in contrast to stable suicidal ideation (i.e. continuously either suicidal or not suicidal), was strongly associated with suicide. Suicidal ideation is not static. Rather, it is a balance between self-destructive and self-preservative wishes at that point in time. Stengel (1977) suggested that victims want neither to live nor to die, but desire both at the same time, usually one more than the other.
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Definition of Suicide
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 153 / Issue 6 / December 1988
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- 02 January 2018, p. 843
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- December 1988
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- British Journal of Psychiatry (1988), 153, 843—854 Correspondence Editor: Ian Pullen Contents: Definition of suicide/Postpartum mania!
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Suicide prevention
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 164 / Issue 1 / January 1994
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 126-127
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- January 1994
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- University ofHong Kong Queen Mary Hospital Pokfulam Road Hong Kong Suicide prevention SIR: We are in agreement with Dr MacDonald (BJP, August 1993, 163, 260) that suicide prevention in severe psychiatric disorders should not be compromised by transfer of resources into new community-based initiatives, the effectiveness of which may as yet be uncertain.
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Preventing suicide
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 182 / Issue 4 / April 2003
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- April 2003
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- I read De Leo's ( 2002 ) editorial on preventing suicide with interest. However, I would like to raise a few concerns. In spite of much development and understanding in both biological and psychological causes for suicide, the prevention of suicide remains an imperfect art. However, the comparison of suicide prevention with that of ischaemic heart disease seems inappropriate. The risk factors for ischaemic heart disease are well known, stable and quantifiable.
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Suicide in Opera
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 136 / Issue 6 / June 1980
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- 29 January 2018, pp. 552-557
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- June 1980
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- Psychiat. (1980), 136,552—557 Suicide in Opera By GRAEME FEGGETTER pattern of changing social attitudes towards suicide which is of interest and merits study.
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Suicide Notes
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 163 / Issue 1 / July 1993
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 45-48
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- July 1993
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- It was hypothesisedthat this defmitionwould include all recorded suicides and suicide attempts with a minimum number of false positives (incidents that did not involve suicidal behaviour).
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