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The Special Characteristics of Suicide in Hospital In-Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. L. Crammer
J. L. Crammer*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5
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A category of suicide which only accounts for about 5% of the annual suicidal deaths in the country may at first seem unimportant. Suicide is seen around the world in different races and cultures, so it is a fact of human nature. However, the suicide of an in-patient is uncommon, and produces great guilt in doctors and nurses when it happens. The result is often a defensive fatalism. However, if we do not allow feeling to block thought and observation, it is possible to learn from each of these deaths something about human beings which we can use in the practice of psychiatry.

Type
Symposium on Suicide in Hospital
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 145 , Issue 5 , November 1984 , pp. 460 - 463
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Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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