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Attempted Suicide: Its Social Significance and Effects by Erwin Stengel and Nancy Cook, with Irving Kreeger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2023

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Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
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Summary

Stengel, Cook and Kreeger's Attempted Suicide is the most sustained early attempt to draw out the social setting of an attempt at suicide. It is part of a real flourishing of social psychiatry in the UK and reinforces a productive model for collaboration between research psychiatrists and psychiatric social workers in the 1950s and 1960s. The sheer amount of work required for a robust social setting, charting the social repercussions for an attempt at suicide, is laid bare in this text.

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Self-harmsuicidecommunicative attempted suicidehistory of psychiatrysocial psychiatry
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Memory Lane
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BJPsych Advances , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , March 2024 , pp. 134 - 136
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal College of Psychiatrists

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Footnotes

Parts of this article draw closely on material previously published in the OA monograph A History of Self-Harm in Britain: A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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