Attempted suicide and suicidal gestures.

Attempted suicide and suicidal gestures.

The problem of attempted suicide is attracting much attention because of the great increase in the incidence of these cases in recent years. Anyone who is clinically involved can have no doubt about the increase although, rather surprisingly, the Ministry of Health have no reliable statistics (Ministry of Health, 1967, personal communication). Those statistics which are available have been coll...

Suicidal ideation and attempted suicide in elderly people - subjective experiences.

We discuss the subjective experiences of elderly people who show suicidal ideation and/or attempts at suicide, based on their own reports. We understand the concept of 'subjective' as referring to intra-psychic experience resulting from social, economic, relationship or biographical conditions. Although the subject is sparsely covered in the literature, it is important, because it is in the fie...

Suicidal journeys: attempted suicide as geographies of intended death

Suicide and attempted suicide

Accurate prediction of suicide risk remains a challenge, in its prevention. Many people with psychiatric disorders do not manifest suicidal behaviour, suggesting the importance of diathesis, or susceptibility to suicide, in addition to associated disorders. At present there are no biomarkers to predict suicidal behaviour. The authors of this article have attempted to describe the neurobiology o...

Suicide and Attempted Suicide

The facts about suicide and attempted suicide, num