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Deliberate Self-injury (Attempted Suicide) in Patients Admitted to Hospital in Mid-Sussex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Solomon Jacobson  and
Patricia Tribe
Solomon Jacobson
Affiliation:
St. Francis and Lady Chichester Hospitals and Brighton and Lewes Group. University of Sussex
Patricia Tribe
Affiliation:
Brighton and Lewes Group of Hospitals
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The incidence of deliberate self-injury without fatal outcome (‘attempted suicide’), and with consequent referral to casualty departments and wards of general hospitals, is a constant and growing concern for the medical and social professions. The situation may be described as a steady, never-ending epidemic, with no ready remedy capable of halting it. Indeed, for many hospitals all over the country the epidemic seems likely to overwhelm existing facilities for the treatment of psychiatric, and even non-psychiatric conditions.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 563 , October 1972 , pp. 379 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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