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Social Pathology and Personality in Attempted Suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. E. Philip  and
J. W. McCulloch
A. E. Philip
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10
J. W. McCulloch
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10
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An ecological study by Philip and McCulloch (1966) demonstrated very high correlations between the incidence of attempted suicide and the rates of incidence for repeated attempted suicide, overcrowding, having been taken into care by the local authority, having had contact as a child with the Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and juvenile delinquency. McCulloch and Philip (1968) showed that persons admitted to hospital following a suicidal attempt manifested these variables to a high degree. In this latter study “juvenile delinquency” was replaced by “all offences” as a variable. The present paper reports on the relationships between a scale based on these variables and a number of psychological measures gathered from 84 of the 95 patients in the latter study.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 505 , December 1967 , pp. 1405 - 1406
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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