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Suicide and Primary Affective Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Samuel B. Guze  and
Eli Robins
Samuel B. Guze
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Eli Robins
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Primary affective disorders, depressive or manic episodes in patients who have been psychiatrically well previously, or who have had episodes of mania or depression without other psychiatric illnesses (Robins and Guze, 1969), are associated with high suicide rates. The following data indicate that the suicide risk among these patients is over thirty times greater than that of the population without these disorders, and that the risk of suicide compared to other causes of death may be increased early in the course of the illness.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 539 , October 1970 , pp. 437 - 438
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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