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Clinical Aspects of Attempted Suicide Among Women in Trinidad and Tobago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Aggrey W. Burke*
Affiliation:
St. Ann's Psychiatric Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago; Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TH

Extract

This paper describes the distribution of female attempted suicide and other psychiatric admissions to the twenty-bedded Psychiatric Unit of Trinidad and Tobago (population about 1 million). Reports from this area have hitherto been concerned with the socio-cultural but not the clinical aspects (McCandless, 1968; Roberts and Russell, 1969) of psychiatric disorders.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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