Can the Phenomenology of a Suicidal Crisis Be Usefully Understood As a Suite of Antipredator Defensive Reactions?

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 107-119

  Joiner, Thomas E ^a   Stanley, Ian H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUICIDE; VICTIM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RESTLESSNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HUMANS; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

EID: 84982136637     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00332747.2016.1142800     Document Type: Article

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