Man against himself.

Menninger, Karl A.

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“…24 It has been suggested that people "show less respect for tramways than for other types of transport," which may explain the higher frequency of unintentional injuries with tramways. 25 For subway suicide, which has been described as a highly aggressive suicide method involving a deep "wish to be murdered or overwhelmed," the reasoning may be the other way round: 26 The different train appearance, together with the outlined technical differences, may influence individuals who intend to die by subway suicide to choose the faster train type. Of note, differences with regard to behavior patterns shown in subway suicides and suicide attempts have repeatedly been discussed in the literature.…”

Section: Discussion Train Types Serving the Stationmentioning

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Predictors of Suicide and Suicide Attempt in Subway Stations: A Population-based Ecological Study

Niederkrotenthaler

Sonneck²,

Dervic

et al. 2012

J Urban Health

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Suicidal behavior on the subway often involves young people and has a considerable impact on public life, but little is known about factors associated with suicides and suicide attempts in specific subway stations. Between 1979 and 2009, 185 suicides and 107 suicide attempts occurred on the subway in Vienna, Austria. Station-specific suicide and suicide attempt rates (defined as the frequency of suicidal incidents per time period) were modeled as the outcome variables in bivariate and multivariate Poisson regression models. Structural station characteristics (presence of a surveillance unit, train types used, and construction on street level versus other construction), contextual station characteristics (neighborhood to historical sites, size of the catchment area, and in operation during time period of extensive media reporting on subway suicides), and passenger-based characteristics (number of passengers getting on the trains per day, use as meeting point by drug users, and socioeconomic status of the population in the catchment area) were used as the explanatory variables. In the multivariate analyses, subway suicides increased when stations were served by the faster train type. Subway suicide attempts increased with the daily number of passengers getting on the trains and with the stations' use as meeting points by drug users. The findings indicate that there are some differences between subway suicides and suicide attempts. Completed suicides seem to vary most with train type used. Suicide attempts seem to depend mostly on passenger-based characteristics, specifically on the station's crowdedness and on its use as meeting point by drug users. Suicide-preventive interventions should concentrate on crowded stations and on stations frequented by risk groups.

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Section: Discussion Train Types Serving the Stationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictors of Suicide and Suicide Attempt in Subway Stations: A Population-based Ecological Study

Niederkrotenthaler

Sonneck²,

Dervic

et al. 2012

J Urban Health

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“…This framework builds upon those proposed by Cooper (2006) in her analyses of the relation between AI and high-risk sexual behavior and from Menninger (1938) and Koob and colleagues (e.g., Koob & Le Moal, 1997), who have highlighted the importance of distinguishing between alcohol's acute and chronic effects on brain and behavior. As shown in Figure 1, this framework can be broadly construed to reflect the alcohol (A) and suicide (S) relation along two domains: (1) directionality, and (2) temporality.…”

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“…This association has been hypothesized since the birth of modern psychiatry. Menninger conceptualized addiction as both a protracted from of chronic suicide and as playing a part in focal deliberate "accidents" (Menninger, 1938). Similar to Menninger, we believe that alcohol can relate to suicide attempts both situationally and chronically, and the aim of this paper is to put forth a conceptual framework of the relation between AI and suicide attempts.…”

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Adolescent alcohol involvement and suicide attempts: Toward the development of a conceptual framework

Bagge

Sher

2008

Clinical Psychology Review

114

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The present article provides a conceptual framework of the relation between alcohol involvement (A) and suicide attempts (S). This framework can be broadly construed to reflect two dimensions: directionality (direction of causality; A→S, S→A, or a spurious relation) and temporality (distinguishing between proximal and distal effects of both behaviors). We review and evaluate the evidence on the association between A and S among adolescents using this conceptual framework as a guide. The extant data suggest that this relation is complex and not fully understood. Further, it seems unlikely that a single approach will be found to determine direction of causality, and the specification and validation of hypothesized mechanisms will involve a variety of different types of evidence. Suggestions for additional research using informative designs are discussed.Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents and accounts for more deaths per year than the next seven leading causes combined (Anderson & Smith, 2003). In 2004, the incidence of suicide was 1.3/100,000 per year among youth aged 10-14 and 8.2/100,000 per year among adolescents aged 15-19 (Center of Disease Control [CDC], 2005). It is estimated that for every death by suicide there are between 8 to 25 nonfatal suicide attempts (Moscicki, 2001). Beyond the tragedy of self-inflicted mortality, the repercussions of adolescent suicide on close friends, extended peer networks, and the family are often severe and account for additional emotional and economic costs to individuals and society (Miller, Covington, & Jenson, 1999). Recognizing the importance of adolescent suicide and suicide attempts to the Nation's health, Healthy People 2010 (Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 2000) has listed as high priority goals to reduce, by more than half, completed suicide overall and suicide attempts in youth.Given the seriousness of suicide, there is historical interest in identifying the factors that predispose adolescents to attempt suicide. Alcohol involvement (AI) is consistently implicated in adolescent suicide attempts (Mehlenbeck, Spirito, Barnett, & Overholser, 2003). This association has been hypothesized since the birth of modern psychiatry. Menninger conceptualized addiction as both a protracted from of chronic suicide and as playing a part in focal deliberate "accidents" (Menninger, 1938). Similar to Menninger, we believe that alcohol can relate to suicide attempts both situationally and chronically, and the aim of this paper is to put forth a conceptual framework of the relation between AI and suicide attempts.Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Courtney L. Bagge, University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Psychological Sciences, 200 South Seventh Street, Columbia, MO 65211-0001. I may also be reached by telephone at (573) 882-9770, by fax at (573) 884-5588 or by email at CLBF34@mizzou.edu. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a...

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“…Menninger's dynamic point of view from 1938 [31] regarded self-mutilation as a morbid form of self help ''to avert total annihilation that is to say suicide''. Apart from the fact that he was the first researcher to place self-mutilation in the framework of psychoanalytic theory of defence mechanisms, he presented the first differentiation or contrast between suicide and self-injury.…”

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Clinical diagnoses, characteristics of risk behaviour, differences between suicidal and non-suicidal subgroups of Hungarian adolescent outpatients practising self-injury

Csorba

Dinya

Plener

et al. 2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Objective: Self-injury (SI), self-injurious behaviour (SIB), including suicidal or non-suicidal self-injury (SSI, NSSI) represent an increasing problem among teenagers amounting to a 6–17% prevalence rate in adolescence, yet little data exists on detailed characteristics and associated factors of SI reaching clinical severity. There is also a scarcity of data distinguishing between suicidal and non-suicidal subsamples of self-injuring patients, i.e. showing which predictors contribute to develop self-injurious behaviour with a previous suicidal history (SSI). Method: Clinical diagnoses and characteristics of risk behaviour were examined in a crosssectional design in suicidal and non-suicidal subgroups of Hungarian adolescent outpatients practising self-injurious behaviour. From the total pool of 708 new patients consecutively referred with various psychiatric problems in five regional child psychiatric centres in Western-Hungary over an 18-month period, 105 adolescent outpatients suffering from self-injurious behaviour participated in the study (28 males and 77 females aged from 14 to 18 years, mean age 15.97, SD 1.05). The Ottawa/Queen’s self-injury questionnaire (OSI) was used to measure the characteristics of risk behaviour, while the comorbid clinical diagnoses were confirmed by the M.I.N.I. Plus International Neuropsychiatric Interview. Descriptive statistics presented the frequencies of the characteristics of SI, bilateral comparisons were used to reveal relevant items to differentiate between sex, duration of practice and SSI versus NSSI and logistic regression was performed to identify significant predictors of suicidal subtype of self-injuring practice. Results: A total of 60% of the clinical SI population experienced a present or past episode of major depression. The motivation of patients to resist impulses and to discontinue malpractice was low. Cutting and scratching was the most common self-injuring methods. Two-thirds of the sample practised the impulsive type of SI, while 30% practised premeditated SI having an incubation time from 30 min to days and weeks before carrying out SI. Although duration of SI did not distinguish the sample in important aspects, girls and boys differed in several aspects of SI practice. SSI adolescents differed from their NSSI peers in a number of important characteristics including the frequency of actions, injured areas, methods, specific stresses and motivations. SSI adolescents were more likely to favour cutting of the lower leg and drug overdose as modes of SI. SSI adolescents were more likely to report addictive features than their peers with no suicidal motivation. From the aspect of self-injurious practice, logistic regression analysis found only two significant predictors for the combined pathology

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Man against himself.

Cited by 66 publications

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Predictors of Suicide and Suicide Attempt in Subway Stations: A Population-based Ecological Study

Predictors of Suicide and Suicide Attempt in Subway Stations: A Population-based Ecological Study

Adolescent alcohol involvement and suicide attempts: Toward the development of a conceptual framework

Clinical diagnoses, characteristics of risk behaviour, differences between suicidal and non-suicidal subgroups of Hungarian adolescent outpatients practising self-injury

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