Professional Problems in Treating Suicidal Persons

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Abstract
Because physicians, psychiatrists and other clinicians must constantly deal with suicidal people, it is important to examine the problems and limitations of actual practice. This is made difficult by the paucity of research. What few clinical studies we do have manifest strong patterns which this article identifies as important hypotheses for further investigation. This is the third in a series of articles designed to shift sociological research away from the futile, Durkheimian study of causes for suicide and towards the analysis of how people cope with suicidal behavior.

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