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A failed suicide pact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

S Amin  and
K Fisher
S Amin
Affiliation:
Research Fellow Academic Department of Psychiatry, Professorial Unit, Duncan Macmillan House, Nottingham NG3 6AA, England
K Fisher
Affiliation:
Queens Medical Centre Nottingham NG7 2UH, England
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Abstract

Suicide pacts are rare in clinical psychiatric practice and usually one or more of the parties die. Here we present a case report where both parties survived. We point out similarities and differences between this pact and others described in the literature.

Keywords

Suicide pactDeliberate self-harmAttempted suicide
Type
Case Reports
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 74 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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