Conditions predisposing to suicide: A review

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 1977, Pages 231-246

  Miles, Charles P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FATALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOPATHY; SUICIDE;

AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PRISONERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0017683992     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-197704000-00002     Document Type: Article

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