Some Clinical Considerations in the Prevention of Suicide Based on a Study of 134 Successful Suicides
American Journal of Public Health and the Nations HealthPublished 1 July 1959Open access
Eli Robins, George E. Murphy, Robert H. Wilkinson, Seymour Gassner, Jack Kayes
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The present investigation was designed to attempt to gain information about suicides occurring in metropolitan St. Louis in a one-year period by means of interviews with relatives, friends, job associates, physicians, and others shortly after each successful suicide.
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