Suicidal Behaviours at the Dawn of the New Millenium: On Their Nature, Magnitude, and Causality

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De Leo, Diego
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2000
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Suicidal behaviour constitutes one of the most common emergencies in psychiatry. However, its prediction and prevention still represent a very complex and puzzling clinical problem. This lecture deals with the most relevant aspects of suicidal behaviour at the dawn of the new millennium: problems with existing definitions and the need for standardised nomenclatures, international epidemiology of mortality and morbidity (non-fatal suicidal behaviour and ideation), its presently most accredited causality.Suicidal behaviour constitutes one of the most common emergencies in psychiatry. However, its prediction and prevention still represent a very complex and puzzling clinical problem. This lecture deals with the most relevant aspects of suicidal behaviour at the dawn of the new millennium: problems with existing definitions and the need for standardised nomenclatures, international epidemiology of mortality and morbidity (non-fatal suicidal behaviour and ideation), its presently most accredited causality.
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Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention
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