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Urban and Rural Suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Alan Capstick
Alan Capstick*
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
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The frequency of suicide differs between communities, countries, and historical periods. Though, in individuals, personal crises and peculiarities of personality structure are important in the causation of suicide, the differences in frequency referred to above are related to differing religious and social attitudes toward suicide and particularly to the degree of the individual's integration into a stable social group. This last influence, it has been suggested, is chiefly responsible for the difference between the suicidal tendencies of urban and rural areas.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 445 , October 1960 , pp. 1327 - 1336
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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