Journal article
Suicide attempted by self-immolation
The American journal of psychiatry, Vol.132(5), pp.554-556
05/1975
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.132.5.554
PMID: 1119621
Abstract
The authors found that 14 individuals who had attempted suicide by self-immolation all had psychiatric illness (most were psychotic), and many had religious preoccupations. There was a reversal of the usual male to female ratios for burn injury and for successful suicide--all 5 completed suicides were women. Although self-immolation as social protest was widely publicized during the years surveyed, the authors note that these individuals all attempted suicide for personal and irrational rather than morally idealistic reasons.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Suicide attempted by self-immolation
- Creators
- N C AndreasenR Noyes Jr
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of psychiatry, Vol.132(5), pp.554-556
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1176/ajp.132.5.554
- PMID
- 1119621
- ISSN
- 0002-953X
- eISSN
- 1535-7228
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/1975
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003910002771
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