Suicide: Threatened and Attempted
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چکیده
With the financial assistance of the Nuffield Foundation, Mr. Greenland has completed a study of 10,000 letters addressed to certain "Advice Columns" of the national press. His report of some 120,000 words is awaiting publication in book form. This article is based on the chapter on psychiatric problems revealed in the correspondence. A brief account of the work as a whole giving details of the writers' age, sex, civil states, social class and geographical source is published under the title "A Study of the Correspondence Addressed to an 'Advice Column' in 19531. Other aspects of this study winch have also been published are listed in references 2, 3, 4 at the end of this article.
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