To be or not to be: A study of suicide.

Problem-solving skills in suicidal psychiatric patients.

“…Discussions of suicide in the clinical literature (Binswanger, 1958;Cavan, 1928;Dublin & Bunzel, 1933;Menninger, 1938;Muhl, 1928;Shneidman, 1957) (Paykel, Prusoff, & Myers, 1975)~ As in research by other investigators (Cochrane & Robertson, 1975;Paykel et al, 1975;Schotte & Clum, 1982) The model preserited in this paper asserts that cognitive rigidity serve~ to mediate this relationship between negative life events, hopelessness and suicidal behavior. As has been noted previously, there is an increasing body of evidence which supports the contention that parasuicides, at least, are more cognitively rigid than non-suicidal control subjects (Levenson, 1972;Neuringer, 1964;Patsiokas, Clum, & Luscomb, 1979).…”

Some Suicide Statistics

“…Dublin and Bunzel (1933) " general business conditions" provided by a public utility corporation for the years 1910-31 in ten American cities. They found an inverse correlation between the suicide index and the business index, each based on annual data (r = -0.55, S.E.…”

The Emergence Of Youth Suicide: An Epidemiologic Analysis And Public Health Perspective

“…In early efforts at suicide surveillance among youth, investigators took a variety of approaches, including tallying over 29,000 newspaper accounts of suicide (3), checking state registries (4), and compiling insurance company records (5). Data accumulated since the last quarter of the nineteenth century highlights differences in patterns of youth suicide when compared with 1970-1980 data.…”

“…In any particular location , these indirect programs may be more important than programs designed to prevent suicide. 5. Persons who use crisis hotiines rarely provide enough personal informa tion to permit the type of follow-up necessary to measure the effectiveness of the hotlines.…”