Familicide and suicide in a case of gambling dependence

Anderson, Ants; Sisask, Merike; Värnik, Airi

doi:10.1080/14789949.2010.518244

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“…However, a recently emerging body of literature includes psychiatric studies linking shame and suicide (Wiklander et al 2012;Bryan et al 2013;Anderson, Sisask, and Varnik 2011;You et al 2012), a qualitative investigation of patients who had attempted suicide that included evidence of feelings of shame (Vatne and Nåden 2012) and studies that demonstrate that the experience of shame is implicated in queer youth suicide (Cover 2012;McDermott, Roen, and Scourfield 2008). This body of literature constitutes a framework that renders shame visible in relation to suicide.…”

Section: The Cultural Politics Of Shame and Suicidementioning

confidence: 97%

The fallen hero: masculinity, shame and farmer suicide in Australia

Bryant

Garnham

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

122

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The drought-stricken Australian rural landscape, cultures of farming masculinity and an economy of value, moral worth and pride form a complex matrix of discourses that shape subjective dynamics that render suicide a possibility for distressed farmers. However, the centrality of a 'mental health' perspective and reified notions of 'stoicism' within this discursive field operate to exclude consideration of the ways in which cultural identity is linked to emotions. To illuminate and explore complex connections between subjectivity, moral worth and affect in relation to understanding farmer suicide, this article draws on theory and literature on agrarian discourses of masculine subjectivity and shame to analyze empirical data from interviews with farmers during times of environmental, social and economic crisis. The idealized notion of the farming man as 'Aussie battler' emerges from romantic agrarian mythology in which pride and self-worth are vested in traditional values of hard work, struggle and self-sacrifice. However, the structural context of agriculture, as it is shaped by the political economy of neoliberalism, threatens farm economic viability and is eroding the pride, self-worth and masculine identity of farmers. The article suggests that the notion of the 'fallen hero' captures a discursive shift of a masculinity 'undone', a regress from the powerful position of masculine subjectivity imbued with pride to one of shame that is of central importance to understanding how suicide emerges as a possibility for farmers.

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Section: The Cultural Politics Of Shame and Suicidementioning

confidence: 97%

The fallen hero: masculinity, shame and farmer suicide in Australia

Bryant

Garnham

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

122

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“…It was observed that pathological gambling increased the odds of perpetrating dating violence, severe marital violence, and severe child abuse even when adjusted for mental disorders [125]. Pathological gambling has also been observed to be associated with homicide in the family [105, 126]. Additionally, among problem gamblers, 63% had been victims or perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) [127].…”

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Public health effects of gambling – debate on a conceptual model

2019

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Background Gambling for money is a popular leisure time activity in most countries, which has major social and economic impacts not only affecting the gambler, but his/her significant others, and the society. Gambling impact studies can help researchers and policymakers compare the health and social costs and benefits of different gambling policies and can be used when considering which gambling policies will reduce or increase costs or benefits the most. In a public health approach, the impacts of gambling, negative and positive, are assessed across the entire severity spectrum of the activity. Although some studies have created basic principles for conducting impact studies, a theoretical model is currently lacking. The aim of this debate is to review complementing and contrasting views on the effects of gambling to create a conceptual model, where a public health perspective is applied. Main text The effects of gambling can be structuralized using a conceptual model, where impacts are divided into negative and positive; costs and benefits. Costs and benefits are categorized into three classes: financial, labor and health, and well-being. These classes manifest in personal, interpersonal, and societal levels. Individual impacts cause effects on a personal level to gamblers themselves. External impacts influence the interpersonal and society/community levels and concern other people. The temporal level refers to the development, severity and scope of the gambling impact. These include general impacts, impacts of problem gambling and long-term impacts of gambling. Conclusions The conceptual model offers a base on which to start building common methodology for assessing the impact of gambling on the society. While measuring monetary impacts is not always straightforward, the main issue is how to measure the social impacts, which are typically ignored in calculations, as are personal and interpersonal impacts. The reviewed empirical work largely concentrated on the costs of gambling, especially costs on the community level. The Model can be used to identify areas where research is scarce. Filling the gaps in knowledge is essential in forming a balanced evidence base on the impacts of gambling. Ideally, this evidence could be the starting point in formulating public policies on gambling.

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“…The murder of a child ( filicide ), without murdering the spouse or the perpetrator committing suicide, is also considered one form of familicide [5–9]. Other terms used to refer to the concept of familicide include familicide-suicide, filicide-suicide and extended suicide where the perpetrator also commits suicide [10,11]. In this literature review, familicide is used to refer to the killing of the child or the whole family with at least one family member killed by another adult family member.…”

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Homicide in the western family and background factors of a perpetrator

Aho

Remahl

Paavilainen

2017

Scand J Public Health

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Psychological instability, violence and crime were found in all these categories of familicides. Perpetrators who had committed a suicide in addition to the familicide had more often been diagnosed with depression, but they sought treatment for mental health problems less often and had violence and self-destructiveness less often in their background than in other familicide categories. Social and healthcare professionals should be more sensitive to emerging family problems and be prepared for intervention.

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Familicide and suicide in a case of gambling dependence

Cited by 21 publications

References 32 publications

The fallen hero: masculinity, shame and farmer suicide in Australia

The fallen hero: masculinity, shame and farmer suicide in Australia

Public health effects of gambling – debate on a conceptual model

Homicide in the western family and background factors of a perpetrator

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