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Some Psychological Features of Persons Who have Attempted Suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Alistair E. Philip  and
J. W. McCulloch
Alistair E. Philip
Affiliation:
School of Studies in Applied Social Sciences, University of Bradford
J. W. McCulloch
Affiliation:
School of Studies in Applied Social Sciences, University of Bradford Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry
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While the importance of psychological factors in attempted suicide has long been acknowledged, the use of standardized psychological techniques has been neglected. The paper by Vinoda (1966) is the first in Britain to describe the personality characteristics of attempted suicides using a battery of objective tests. She tested and compared a group of female attempted suicides, who had been admitted to the psychiatric ward of a general hospital, with a group of psychiatric patients and a group of non-psychiatric patients from the same hospital. Where differences on testing occurred it was usually the case that the attempted suicide and psychiatric groups were discriminated from the normal controls but not from each other.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 515 , October 1968 , pp. 1299 - 1300
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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