Year: 1963
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The social pathology of attempted suicide in Great Britain has been intensively investigated by Stengel and Cook (1958) and Kessel and Lee (1962).Attempted suicides have also been studied in the context of the general hospital by Woodside (1958), and Harrington and Cross (1959), and in that of general practice by Batchelor (1955).The purpose of the present investigation was to compare attempted suicides with other patients referred for psychiatric treatment (controls) and discover whether attempted suicides have a greater degree of social disorganization than is usually found among other psychiatric patients.The factors of social disorganization investigated were the broken home, unstabilizing factor in the household, unemployment, change(s) of address, and marital disharmony.METHOD 143 persons were admitted to Ward 3 of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from November, 1961, to February, 1962, after "attempted suicide".91 of them complied with our definition of suicide, namely, any act of self-injury performed with the intent of taking one's life, and those who made only verbal threats and doubtful cases (i.e. in which the intention
Author: J. G. Bruhn
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2103618279