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The Relationship between Parental Loss and Attempted Suicide: A Control Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Steven Greer
Steven Greer*
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Havelock Clinic, 1 Havelock Street, Perth, Western Australia
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Attempted suicide has been described as “one of the most disturbing and costly abnormal behaviour patterns in our society” (29). Various suspected predisposing factors have been extensively studied, including physical and mental illness (e.g. 24, 17, 11, 25, 6), alcoholism (e.g. 19, 8, 3, 12), interpersonal conflicts (e.g. 10, 30, 14), old age (e.g. 15, 34, 23), and social isolation and degeneration (e.g. 7, 28, 33).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 468 , September 1964 , pp. 698 - 705
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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