{"title":"The perception of the passage of time among death-involved hospital patients.","authors":"Charles Neuringer, Robert M. Harris","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00544.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00544.X","url":null,"abstract":"The present study attempted to evaluate the extent of the relationship between death involvement and temporal orientation among hospitalized suicidal, terminal, geriatrically ill, and normal patients. Their perception of the passage of time was evaluated by (a) behavioral estimations of elapsed time and (b) a survey of their opinions concerning the passage of time. The latter method included an evaluation of various consequences of the rate of time passage. The results indicated that the suicidal patients, closely followed by the geriatrically ill, overestimated time intervals to a much greater extent than did the normal and terminal patients. The suicidal subjects expressed a great deal of impulsiveness and described themselves as feeling miserable to a much greater degree than did the other groups.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"152 1","pages":"240-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00544.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63453824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John H. Greist, David H. Gustafson, F. F. Stauss, G. Rowse, Thomas P. Laughren, John A. Chiles
{"title":"Suicide risk prediction: a new approach.","authors":"John H. Greist, David H. Gustafson, F. F. Stauss, G. Rowse, Thomas P. Laughren, John A. Chiles","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00542.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00542.X","url":null,"abstract":"A computer program that collects suicide risk factors by computer interview from persons with thoughts of suicide and processes the data to provide risk predictions has been written and pilot tested. Patient acceptance of the interviewing technique was good; more than half of the patients interviewed preferred the computer to a doctor as an interviewer. Bayes Theorem is used to process the data collected against a subjective data base. In a retrospective study comparing risk predictions made by the computer with predictions by experienced clinicians, the computer was more accurate in predicting suicide attempters (p .01) and slightly less accurate in predicting nonattempters. The program is economical, can be used wherever a telephone and a computer terminal are available, and is readily and uniformly modified to include new data.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"4 4 1","pages":"212-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00542.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63454167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evan R. Powell, Martha E. Heaton, Patricia T. Ashton
{"title":"Systematic observation of crisis center telephone interactions.","authors":"Evan R. Powell, Martha E. Heaton, Patricia T. Ashton","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00543.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00543.X","url":null,"abstract":"The development of a systematic, objective method of categorizing helper‐helpee interactions as the first step in a predictive study is reported. Data on 100 initial suicidal telephone calls to three crisis intervention centers are generated from tapes of these calls. The 28,000 plus statements made in the calls are categorized into up to 8 categories in up to 11 levels. Descriptive data, including modal patterns, are presented. The importance of data rather than ratings is pointed out, and the Caller‐Worker Interaction Program is recommended as a research and monitoring tool with relevance to worker training.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"4 4 1","pages":"224-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00543.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63454216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future fate of suicide attempters.","authors":"Nils Retterstöl","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00540.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00540.X","url":null,"abstract":"A review is made of studies of suicide attempters in which there was a personal follow‐up examination. Two studies by the author are presented: suicide attempters admitted to a psychiatric clinic and suicide attempters admitted to a traditional psychiatric hospital. The committed suicide rate among the hospital cases was three to six times higher than in the clinic cases (6.8 percent versus 1.4 to 2.8 percent). In the hospital material, 28 percent of the subjects had repeated the attempt without lethal outcome compared to 14 percent of the clinic cases. A correlation with the higher incidence of psychosis in the mental hospital cases is suggested.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"63 1","pages":"203-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63454082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The world of the abused child: a phenomenological report.","authors":"Irving Babow, Robin Babow","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00536.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00536.X","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: A verbatim interview of one 21‐year‐old suicidal woman, who had a long history of abuse by her mother, is presented. Some theoretical issues concerning the scientific and clinical usefulness of phenomenological reports in the understanding of child abuse (and other aberrant behavior) are briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"4 1 1","pages":"32-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00536.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63453887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suicide in the subway: psychodynamic aspects.","authors":"Frederick G. Guggenheim, Avery D. Weisman","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00537.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00537.X","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Fifty‐one cases of suicide attempts in the subway have been investigated to examine the question of whether the method used has psychodynamic significance or is merely adventitious. We found that no single characteristic distinguished subway suicide from all other suicide modalities, although as a group the subway cases had a higher proportion of psychotic and previously suicidal patients than other series quoted in the literature. However, there were important differences between subway suicide cases seeking a “traumatic” death (jumping in front of a train; lying across the track awaiting destruction) and those seeking a “nontraumatic” death (electrocution on the live “third rail”). The traumatic group had histories of exposure to violence, other traumatic suicide attempts, hostile or destructive delusions, and many “destroy” words on psychological test protocols. The smaller nontraumatic group had no such history of exposure to violence; their previous suicide attempts were nontraumatic; delusions, when present, were not menacing; and the psychological tests showed more “escape” words than “destroy” words.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"4 1 1","pages":"43-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00537.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63453957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Morris J. Paulson, Anne B. Savino, Anne Chaleff, R. Sanders, Florence Frisch, Richard Dunn
{"title":"Parents of the battered child: a multidisciplinary group therapy approach to life-threatening behavior.","authors":"Morris J. Paulson, Anne B. Savino, Anne Chaleff, R. Sanders, Florence Frisch, Richard Dunn","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00535.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00535.X","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This paper reports the demographic findings and the experience of a three‐year, multidisciplinary group psychotherapy program, with 31 child‐abusing families. No predictive demographic characteristics were identified. The abuse of children ranged from mild bruising to severe brain damage and multiple fractures. Group therapy as an intervention procedure had its successes and failures. The dynamics of male‐female co‐therapists, the peer group sharing, and the capacity to ultimately verbalize inadequacies in the parenting role were crucial factors in therapy. As an experiential encounter the study gives a poignant insight into the personal and family pathology of parents who abuse their children.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"32 1","pages":"18-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00535.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63453852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a sociocultural perspective on means of self-destruction.","authors":"Alan Marks, Thomas Abernathy","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00534.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00534.X","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: The relationship between an individual's intent to die and choice of method is examined. A sociocultural perspective is developed in an attempt to: explain the principle differences in choice of method by sex; to explain regional variations over time, by sex; and to differentiate between regional and/or cultural areas in their use of firearms as a means of self‐destruction. The concept of availability is examined, and it is shown that it consists of, at least, two dimensions: the physical presence of a method, and the sociocultural acceptability of that method that results in the individual's selection of a particular method of self‐destruction from a range of socially and culturally acceptable means of suicide. A concept of suicidal threshold is advanced as suggestive of a suicidal level that an individual must reach before a suicidal process develops and results in the person's self‐inflicted death.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"4 1 1","pages":"3-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00534.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63453754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors affecting reported rates of self-injury.","authors":"R. Ferrence, F. G. Johnson","doi":"10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00538.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00538.X","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: The magnitude of variation in reported rates of self‐injury suggests that factors other than actual incidence affect these rates. Factors that relate to the scope of the reporting network and to the intensity of contacts within this network are examined in detail to determine their effect on the reporting process. Differences in study design and reporting procedures are found to explain most of this variation and suggest the need for standardized techniques in studying the epidemiology of self‐injury.","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"4 1 1","pages":"54-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1943-278X.1974.TB00538.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63454024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J H Greist, D H Gustafson, F F Stauss, G L Rowse, T P Laughren, J A Chiles
{"title":"Suicide risk prediction: a new approach.","authors":"J H Greist, D H Gustafson, F F Stauss, G L Rowse, T P Laughren, J A Chiles","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":78416,"journal":{"name":"Life-threatening behavior","volume":"4 4","pages":"212-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15716146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}