Types of attempted suicide (parasuicide)

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Abstract
The clinical usefulness of a typology of parasuicide, reported in a previous paper, was improved. A finer grained classification, using 6 instead of only 3 clusters, proved to be clinically highly realistic. Using a new method of cluster analysis which examined 80 attributed in each of 350 patients, the following types of parasuicide emerged: operant, not alienated; repeaters; depressed with high life endangerment; operant and alienated; wristcutters and undifferentiated. This more detailed typology may offer some advantages for clinical management and research.

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