The Impact of a Patient's Suicide on Psychiatric Trainees: A Case Study and Review of the Literature

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-55

  Lafayette, Jennifer M ^a   Stern, Theodore A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Psychiatry; Resident; Suicide; Training

Indexed keywords

OLANZAPINE; RISPERIDONE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANGER; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GUILT; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANOIA; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHAME; SOLDIER; SUICIDE;

HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRY; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; SUICIDE;

EID: 1542335758     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220490279152     Document Type: Review

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