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Alcoholism and Suicidal Impulses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. C. Sullivan
W. C. Sullivan*
Affiliation:
H.M. Prison, Liverpool
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Extract

The important part played by alcoholism in the causation of suicide has been abundantly recognised by all observers of both these social phenomena; and so far as debate now touches the question, it is merely to deal with points of detail.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 44 , Issue 185 , April 1898 , pp. 259 - 271
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1898 

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‡ Quoted in Morselli, , Il Suicidio, 1879.Google Scholar

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∗ Serré, in observations on 1500 cases of alcoholic insanity at Ville Evrard Asylum, noted [suicidal tendencies in 1286 per cent., assaults in 14·46 per cent. ( Th. de Paris , 1896).Google Scholar

† In the five years 1892–6 there were 548 such cases evenly divided between the sexes. I am indebted for these figures to the courtesy of the Head Constable of the City of Liverpool.Google Scholar

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∗ Cp. similar process in dreams determined by morbid organic sensations. Ribot, , Maladies de la Personnalité, 1897, p. 27; Maury, , Le Sommeil et les Rêves, 1862, p. 75.Google Scholar

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‡ It is interesting to note that this disease, in which, if the dominant lesions are nervous, they are yet extra-cerebral, is associated with strong suicidal tendencies. Morselli, , op, cit., p. 398, estimates that in the decade 1866–76, 30 per cent. of suicides from mental disease, or about 16·5 per cent. of all suicides in Italy, were due to pellagra.Google Scholar

∗ Pathology of Mind, 1895.Google Scholar

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