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  • Aircraft-Assisted Pilot Suicides in the United States, 1993–2002
    Our laboratory was interested in epidemiological and toxicological findings from aircraft-assisted pilot suicides. Between 1993–200...
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  • New Directions for the Archives of Suicide Research
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  • Indigenous Suicide in New Zealand
    This article describes patterns of suicide and attempted suicide among the indigenous (Māori) population of New Zealand using offici...
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  • Suicide Among Indigenous People: Foreword
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  • Race and Method of Suicide: Culture and Opportunity
    We would expect them to choose violent methods of suicide. Data are from the 1990 mortality detail file of the U.S. Public Health Se...
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  • The General Public's Views on Suicide and Suicide Prevention, and their Perception of Participating in a Study on Attitudes towards Suicide
    The aim of the presented study was to investigate whether common myths about suicide still prevail, what people in general think are...
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  • Suicide Among Social Workers: A Research Note
    Occupations have been a relatively neglected risk factor in the etiology of suicide. Client-oriented occupations are often thought to...
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  • Impulsivity in Drug Dependent Patients Who Attempt Suicide
    Impulsivity is a personality dimension often implicated in suicidal behavior. However, it has been little studied in drug dependent p...
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  • Geographic Variation in Suicide Rates: Relationships to Social Factors, Migration, and Ethnic History
    Our study looked at ethnic and national formations with respect to suicide patterns. The results indicated that the suicide rates va...
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  • Suicide Genes Floating in a Glass of Sparkling Wine
    We will explain the polygenetic, multi-factorial model of suicidal genetics and address the interaction of genes and the environment...
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  • Suicide in Lithuania During the Years of 1990 to 2002
    Lithuania, among other Eastern European countries, has the highest suicide rates in the world. While the mid 1980's experienced a sha...
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  • The Use of Mindfulness-Based Approaches for Suicidal Patients
    Mindfulness-based approaches are becoming more widely used for individuals at risk of suicidal behavior: in the treatment of borderli...
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  • A Possible Suicide Epidemic after Weininger's "Sex and Character": A Comment on Thorson and Oberg
    In 1903, Otto Weininger published a book “Sex and Character,” that may have led to an epidemic of suicide in young, educated Jewi...
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  • Does Single Motherhood Protect Against Black Female Suicide?
    Although sociological studies of suicide among non-White groups have become more common over the past two to three decades, Black fem...
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  • Suicide by Firearm, a Unique Pattern from Iran
    Throughout the one-year period from March 21, 2002 to March 21, 2003, the Legal Medicine Organization of Iran in Tehran investigated...
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  • Emile Durkheim and Altruistic Suicide
    Altruistic suicides are marked by cultural approval and benefit the social order. They occur in social groups where there is a low va...
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  • Paetus, It Does Not Hurt Altruistic Suicide in the Greco-Roman World
    Émile Durkheim, a student of classical education, studied altruistic suicide through an exploration of ancient culture. He associate...
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  • Altruistic Suicide: A Look at Some Issues
    Examples of recent cases of martyrs are examined in order to identify the basic issues of whether martyrdom can be viewed as altruist...
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  • Altruistic Suicide: A Few Reflections
    We focus on the question, who is the altruistic suicide? Durkheim's additional question is raised: When is a motive praiseworthy and...
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  • Paetus, It Does Not Hurt: Altruistic Suicide in the Greco-Roman World
    E´mile Durkheim, a student of classical education, studied altruistic suicide through an exploration of ancient culture. He associat...
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  • Sociopolitical Contextsof Self-Immolations in Vietnam and South Korea
    This article explores common political and social-psychological factors involved in acts of self-immolation that took place in Vietna...
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  • Sociopolitical Contexts of Self-Immolations in Vietnam and South Korea
    This article explores common political and social-psychological factors involved in acts of self-immolation that took place in Vietna...
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  • Suicide in India, 1995-1999
    The epidemiology of suicide in India from 1995-1999 was presented. The data show an increasing incidence of suicide; over 100,000 peo...
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  • Suicidal Adolescents: Helpful Aspects of Psychotherapy
    The purpose of this study was to investigate suicidal adolescents' perceptions of helpful experiences in psychotherapy. During the in...
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  • "I Am Nobody": A Case Study of Suicidal Dynamics in Pedophilia
    We describe a patient at acute suicide risk. His Rorschach protocol was analyzed using Exner's Comprehensive System and a number of p...
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  • Suicidal Behavior as a Cry of Pain: Test of a Psychological Model
    The cry of pain hypothesis (Pollock &Williams, 2001; Williams, 2001) is a psychological model of suicidal behavior that extends e...
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  • The Gender Gap in Suicide Rates: An Analysis of Twenty Developed Countries, 1955-1994
    We analyze the difference between the male and female suicide rates. We examine variation in this measure of gender gap in suicide r...
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  • Do Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions Reduce Suicide in Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders?
    Suicide is the leading cause of premature death among individuals with schizophrenia. Approximately 10-15% of patients with schizophr...
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  • Place of Birth and Suicide in Hungary: Is There a Regional Subculture of Self-Destruction?
    I tested this explanation by looking at the longer-term impact of region of birth, controlling for current place of residence. Condu...
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  • Motives for Suicide Attempts--the Views of the Patients
    This study was designed to investigate the motives patients give for attempting suicide and the associations between these motives an...
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  • Does the Level of Divorce or Religiosity Make a Difference? Cross-National Suicide Rates in 21 Developed Countries, 1955-1994
    Durkheim found that, not only do divorce rates significantly impact suicide rates in different countries, but the level of divorce ha...
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  • Suicide and Auto-aggression, Depression, Hopelessness, Self-communication-- Results of a Prospective Study
    A prospective study (N=503) conducted at the Department of Psychiatry, University Clinic Graz, investigated possible differences in i...
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  • Correlation Between Suicide Rate and Antidepressant Use in Slovenia
    Major descriptors of Slovenian suicide statistics are presented for the 13-year period ending in 1997. The purpose of the present stu...
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  • Suicide Among Former Mineworkers in the Sub Region of Transkei, South Africa: Case Reports
    Transkei is one of the former black homelands in South Africa where the majority of the population is impoverished and dependent upon...
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  • Problems of Importance for Suicide Attempts--the Patients' Views
    This study was designed to investigate suicide attempters' views on problems underlying their suicidal behavior. A questionnaire comp...
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  • Patterns of Suicide by Age and Gender in the Indian States: A Reflection of Human Development?
    Girard (1993) suggests that age and gender specific suicide patterns can be predicted by economic progress. However, human developmen...
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  • Social Hopelessness and College Student Suicide Ideation
    The present study examined the relationship between suicide ideation and various predictive psychological factors in order to improve...
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  • Long-term Trends, Seasonality, Weekly Distribution, and Methodsof Suicide in Slovenia: A Comparison Between the Younger and Older Population
    Our aim was to compare trends, seasonality, weekly distribution, and methods of youth suicide with suicide in older population. The...
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  • Impaired Self-Regulation and Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatric Inpatients
    We investigated the influence of impairment in general self-regulation, including specific behavioral dysregulation, on suicidal beh...
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  • The Role of Personality Traits in the Understanding of Suicide Attempt Behavior Among Psychiatric Patients
    The main objective of the present study is to enrich our understanding regarding the role of personality traits in the explanation of...
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  • CLINICAL NOTE
    Regional cerebral hypoperfusion is found in depression. Favorable therapeutic effect of antidepressant drugs usually leads to flow no...
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  • The Regional Correlates of Suicide in Canada: Changes Over Time
    A study of the correlates of measures of domestic integration with suicide rates over the provinces of Canada revealed a striking cha...
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  • Treatment Attendance and Suicidal Behavior 1 Month and 3 Months After a Suicide Attempt: A Comparison Between Two Samples
    This study investigated attendance of treatment and follow-up characteristics in two samples of suicide attempters with different len...
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  • Suicide Risk Factors Among Mexican Migrant Farmworker Women in the Midwest United States
    No previous studies have assessed suicide risk among migrant farmworkers in the United States. The purposes of the present study were...
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  • Effectiveness of a 'Green Card' Intervention for Patients Engaging in Deliberate Self-harm
    A service enhancement program for deliberate self-harm (DSH) patients in two area mental health services in New South Wales, Australi...
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  • Economic and Environmental Factorsin Hong Kong Suicides
    We study the geographical suicide pattern in Hong Kong and examine the influence of socio-economic status on suicides. The geographic...
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  • Suicide Mortality Among Immigrant Finnish Swedes
    We have found it to be very high for both sexes. The mean overall rate was 48.2/100,000 a year--2.0 times the Swedish rate and 1.6 t...
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  • COMMENTARY
    Suicide prevention remains an important objective for the mental health services. The mentally ill represent a group of individuals a...
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  • Violence and Substance Use in Adolescents with Increasing Severity of Suicidal Behavior
    Our findings lend partial support to the continuum of severity hypothesis of suicidal behaviors and suggest that clinicians should b...
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  • Predicting Repetition of Suicide Attempt: A Prospective Study of 50Suicide Attempters
    The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for repetition of suicide attempt by means of a prospective design. Fifty suic...
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  • Self-Blame, Social Introversion, and Male Suicides: Prospective Data from a Longitudinal Study
    This study examines the use of 7 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Hathaway & Briggs, 1940) subscales in their a...
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  • Was There a Suicide Epidemic After Goethe's Werther ?
    "Giving publicity to suicides may lead to an epidemic of suicides." A claim such as this was made in connection with the publication...
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  • Suicide Rates in Hungary Do Not Correlate Negatively with Reported Rates of Depression and with the Number of General Practitioners
    The author re-examined the theory published in several papers in Hungarian and English which attempt to explain the striking regional...
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  • Culture Change and Mental Health: The Epidemiology of Suicide in Greenland
    The focus of this article is to present an overview of suicide rates among the Inuit in Greenland in the period 1972-1995 and demogra...
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  • Sexual Abuse and Suicide: Why We May Not Know What We Think We Know
    This article reviews the research on the relationship between a reported history of sexual abuse and subsequent suicidal behavior. Ba...
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  • Psychological Autopsy Interviews in Suicide Research: The Reactions of Informants
    We followed up 68 informants approximately one month after they were interviewed in three recent studies of suicide in high risk gro...
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  • Suicide and Homicide: Durkheim's and Henry & Short's Theories Tested on Data from the Baltic States
    The three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - were studied in two sociopolitically divergent periods. The first was the s...
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  • Aspects of the Suicidal Career in Severe Depression: A Comparison Between Attempts in Suicides and Controls
    Suicide attempts in the long term course of illness were investigated in 89 suicides with a primary severe depression/melancholia and...
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  • Negative Life Events in Childhood, Psychological Problems and Suicide Attempts in Adulthood: A Matched Case-Control Study
    The purpose of the study was to investigate relations between childhood negative life events (parental loss, parental mental illness...
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  • Suicide Amongst the Elderly in 'Catholic and Orthodox' and 'Non-Catholic-Orthodox' Countries: An Unexpected Finding
    It was expected that elderly suicide compared to general suicide rates would be lower in Catholic and Orthodox countries than Non-Cat...
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  • Measuring Attitudes of Mental Health Care Staff Toward Suicidal Patients
    Measurement, because of its role in the scientific process, is one of the principal concerns in human sciences. This study investigat...
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  • Suicidal Callers to a National Helpline in the UK: A Comparison of Depressive and Psychotic Sufferers
    We describe the profile and experience with services of suicidal people calling SANELINE, a national mental health helpline in the U...
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  • The Internet - A New Source of Data on Suicide, Depression and Anxiety: A Preliminary Study
    On the world wide web, self-help newsgroups of suicidal, depressive and anxious people were investigated in a 3-month period. After a...
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  • Suicide After Natural Disasters and Statistical Disasters: A Comment
    The retraction of a study, erroneously, due to a data assembling error, giving evidence for significantly increased suicide rates in...
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  • Can Writing Autobiographical Essays Lessen Suicidal Thinking?
    To assess if autobiographical writing would lessen suicidal thinking, improve mood, or reduce health center visits, 49 undergraduates...
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  • Suicidal Ideation as an Articulation of Intent: A Focus for Suicide Prevention?
    Suicidal ideation is the most common of all suicidal behavior, but only a minority of ideators ever engages in overt self-harm. If id...
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  • Twin Studies of Suicidal Behavior
    Research on twin studies of suicidal behavior are reviewed. No Methodologically sound study on twins reared apart has et appeared, an...
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  • High Suicidal Intent Scores Indicate Future Suicide
    We formulated a receiver operating characteristic curve. From this we were able to detect a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of...
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  • Characteristics of Recent Suicide Attempts by Inmates in Maximum Security Correctional Centers
    The research examined inmates' subjective perceptions of the reasons for suicide attempts and the psychological, sociological and cri...
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  • Historical Perspectives on Suicide and Suicide Prevention in Sweden
    The suicide panorama is not static but continually changing with the development of society. In this article changes in suicide rates...
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  • Mental Health and Social Isolation Among Survivors Ten Years After a Suicide in the Family: A Case-Control Study
    Our conclusion is that suicide may be associated with mental symptoms and lack of social relationships in surviving spouses even 10...
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  • Social Protests and Rates of Personal Violence in The Netherlands
    Data were obtained on the number of social protests in the Netherlands for the period 1975 to 1989. The number of social protests was...
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  • Lethal Violence Rates and Suicide-Homicide Ratios in 21 Developed Countries, 1955-1994: How Different are LVR and SHR from Suicide and Homicide Rates?
    From a cross-national perspective, the practice of combining suicide and homicide rates into (1) lethal violence rates and (2) the pr...
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  • The Psychophysiology of Repetitive Self-Mutilation
    Psychophysiological and psychological responses of frequent self-mutilation participants (more than five life time self-mutilative ep...
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  • Applicability of Neural Networks to Suicidological Research: A Pilot Study
    Suicide is a leading cause of death internationally. Prediction of the phenomenon has proved to be extremely difficult and results in...
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  • Pathological Gambling and Suicidal Behavior
    Although the elevated risk of suicide in pathological gamblers is frequently reported in studies on gambling and in the popular liter...
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  • Differences in Irish Urban and Rural Suicide Rates, 1976–1994
    The recent rise in the Irish suicide rate is a male phenomenon. The present paper calculates urban and rural suicide rates for Irelan...
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  • An Overview of Suicide Research in China
    Chinese suicide research did not start until the end of 1970s, when China opened its door to the West through reforming its economy....
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  • The Quality of Psychiatric Management of Youth Who Deliberately Self-poison: A Medical Records Audit in three University Teaching Hospitals
    Descriptive, cross sectional, retrospective audit of hospital admission records was undertaken for youth (10–25 years) deliberate s...
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  • Identification of Youth who have Deliberately Self Poisoned – A Medical Records Audit in University Teaching Hospitals
    A descriptive, cross sectional, retrospective audit of admission records and hospital casualty cards were undertaken to determine the...
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  • Trends in Attempted Suicide in Adolescents and Young Adults in Gent, 1986–1995
    This paper describes gender-specific trends in the occurrence and methods of attempted suicide in adolescents and young adults betwee...
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  • Personality Disorders in Suicide Attempters and Completers: Preliminary Findings
    Personality disorders may play an important role in understanding suicide risk. The present study was designed to examine the frequen...
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  • Method of Suicide in Relation to Some Sociodemographic Variables in Northern Sweden
    All completed suicides during the 42 years 1952–1993 in the comity of Västerbotten in northern Sweden (1,466 cases) were analysed...
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  • The 1994–1995 Baseball and Hockey Strikes and their Impact on Suicide and Homicide Rates in the United States
    Because some individuals' identities are influenced by an affiliation with professional sports teams (Tutko, 1989), the impact of the...
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  • Economic Correlates of Suicide in the United States (1929–1992): A Time Series Analysis
    A time series analysis of the relationship between suicide rates for several demographic groups and economic variables (unemployment,...
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  • Ethical & Legal Issues in Suicidology: International Perspectives
    We embark on this millennium....
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  • Research Methods: A History of Some Important Strands
    Wilhelm Wundt's distinction between experimental methods appropriate for understanding simple processes and naturalistic methods appr...
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  • Book Reviews
    Our intent is to be informative in our reviews (standard two to three pages, double-spaced, in APA, 5th edition style). The editoria...
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  • Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Suicidology: Commentary
    We can hope to obtain a consilient perspective of this challenging behavior. The contributions reviewed assist this aim....
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  • Aspects of Qualitative Research in Suicidology
    I will describe the psychodynamic and experience-oriented research approach employed by the TZS, which can be viewed as a contributi...
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  • Qualitative Versus Quantitative Studies in Psychiatry: Two Examples of Cooperation from Suicidology
    Two ways in which qualitative and quantitative research can cooperate are described: clinical research as a source of hypotheses for...
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