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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE [1 record]

Record 1 2013-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Self-harm. You have likely had the experience of trying to injure yourself in some way (parasuicide) or attempted suicide. You may feel it is difficult or impossible to stop this behaviour; you may even feel that it helps relieve the tension you experience.

CONT

A groups of 20 psychiatric inpatients who committed parasuicide during their hospital stay were compared with 58 randomly selected control inpatients and with 34 patients who were admitted following a parasuicide ... [Source: PASCAL database].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

[...] Cette étude examine l'incidence du parasuicide en rapport avec l'alcool dans un centre hospitalier général de Pietermaritzburgh, [Afrique du Sud]. Plus de 40 % des femmes mariées commettant un parasuicide citaient l'abus d'alcool de leurs maris et leur comportement violent associé comme facteur de leur acte d'auto-destruction [...] [Source : base de données PASCAL].

CONT

C'était sa première «TS». Les jeunes comme elle ne disent pas «tentative de suicide».

OBS

Terme connexe : geste suicidaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología (Generalidades)
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