The Prediction of Suicide: Why Is It so Difficult?
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 38 (3) , 341-349
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.3.341
Abstract
Efforts to develop patient profiles predicting future suicide fall prey to an inexorable constraint in the statistical properties of rare events: they identify unacceptably large numbers of false positives. Clinical recognition of persons at increased risk of suicide is nevertheless feasible. Through appropriate diagnosis and treatment, suicide prevention is possible.Keywords
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