Double Suicide in Psychiatric Hospital Patients

1 December 1966

journal article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 112 (493) , 1231-1235
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.112.493.1231

Abstract

A brief report is made of the incidence of double suicide in a mental hospital. The possibilities of imitation as a contributory factor are explored, and their implications examined.

Keywords

DOUBLE SUICIDE
PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
IMITATION
IMPLICATIONS EXAMINED
MENTAL HOSPITAL
BRIEF REPORT
CONTRIBUTORY FACTOR

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Mott On Mood
The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1965
TOWARDS PREVENTING SUICIDE
The Lancet, 1957