Death without Warning?: A Clinical Postmortem Study of Suicide in 43 Israeli Adolescent Males

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 138-142

  Apter, Alan ^a,c   Bleich, Avi ^a,c   King, Robert A ^b   Kron, Shmuel ^a   Fluch, Avi ^a   Kotler, Moshe ^a   Cohen, Donald J ^b  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; NARCISSISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOIDISM; SUICIDE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; FAMILY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RELIGION; SUICIDE;

EID: 0027499023     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1993.01820140064007     Document Type: Article

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