Physical Disease, Hypochondria, and Alcohol Addiction in Suicides Committed by Mental Hospital Patients
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 111 (479) , 933-937
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.111.479.933
Abstract
A study was made of 57 suicides committed by mental hospital patients in Helsinki in the period 1952 to 1963 (Achté, Stenback and Teräväinen, 1965). This report is concerned with the frequency of physical disease, hypochondria, and alcoholism in these 57 suicides.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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