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Attempted Suicide in Glasgow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. Balfour Sclare  and
C. M. Hamilton
A. Balfour Sclare
Affiliation:
Eastern District Hospital, Glasgow, and University of Glasgow
C. M. Hamilton
Affiliation:
Eastern District Hospital, Glasgow
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Attempted suicide has been described as the prime emergency of general practice. Although this may represent a slightly exaggerated claim, the present writers have certainly found attempted suicide to be a frequent reason for the referral of patients to the psychiatric department of a general hospital. The expression “attempted suicide” is usually taken to refer to an unsuccessful attempt to kill oneself: yet such a description is often somewhat inappropriate to describe a dramatic episode of behaviour, during which an assault upon the self occurs as the result of a mood of despair or rage. Death may not be consciously sought and it is more satisfactory to define attempted suicide as a non-fatal act of self-damage.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 109 , Issue 462 , September 1963 , pp. 609 - 615
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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