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SYNOPSIS Despite high figures recorded from the normal population early parental deprivation is commoner in psychiatric and deviant populations. This deprivation and Its aftermath Ls qualitatively different when normal and abnormal samples are contrasted. Suicidal, delinquent, criminal, alcoholic, neurotic, socially deviant and normal groups were studied on variables related to early parental deprivation and other family characteristics. By the classificatory strategy, cluster analysis, three abnormul and two normal groups were generated. at UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL on June 17, 2015 anp.sagepub.com Downloaded from

Parasuicide is not a single syndrome. Subtypes at present recognized are based largely on clinically derived stereotypes. When considering a series of patients, the clinician is unable to handle more than a few attributes at a time. This paper describes the application of three very different clustering algorithms to a material of 350 treated parasuicide patients. Mathematically, three types emerge. Clinically, two of these are interpretable and make sense. The types established are: I (n = 107) a group not characterized by any of the variables we examined; this group is a puzzle, mainly because the reasons for the parasuicidal act are not clear. II (n = 132) a depressed, alienated group with high life-endangerment. III (n = III) a group whose act was highly operant: they felt alienated and were angry with others. These groups did not differ significantly on demographic variables. The usefulness of this typology, particularly for management, after-care and prevention, has now to be assessed.

The purpose of this article is twofold. Firstly as a contribution to the literature of female delinquency, a subject that has attracted little contemporary attention, with one notable exception, the essentially psychiatric study of a year's intake into a classifying Approved School by Cowie, Cowie and Slater (1968). Secondly as an examination of the hypothesis that early adverse experiences are related to female delinquency in particular and to behaviour disturbance in general.