Resource Tag: GERMANY

The presenter discussed his experiences with patients who were hospitalized at Klinikum Steglitz after a suicide attempt. The crisis that precipitated the attempt often presented from the perspective of feelings of isolation & alienation. The extent to which crisis intervention is dependent upon the limitations of the treatment situation & setting was reflected upon.

A study of the regional variation of suicide rates over the sixteen Bundeslander of Germany in 1996 revealed that suicide rates were higher in regions with a higher unemployment rate, lower marriage and birth rates, and in regions from the former East Germany. (7 refs.)

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Clinical psychological discourse contains a varied array of evaluations of the risk &/or benefits of Internet message boards where people can discuss their suicidal thoughts. Public opinion contends they are harmful. To assess this assumption, an online questionnaire (n=164) survey was conducted on a German message board. 3 user types were identified with differing motives […]

Lester (1995) reported that domestic protests in Canada from 1960-1985 were associated with lower rates of suicide & homicide. Data on protests in West Germany from 1965-1989 were available permitting an examination of these associations. Suicide rates were not associated with the total number of protests each year, the number of demonstrations, the number of […]

This document provides guidelines for the media coverage of suicide. These guidelines were presented at a seminar in Germany for media professionals, psychiatrists, & communications students. Information is provided on the Werther effect, how important this effect can be in triggering suicide in high-risk groups, the dangers of sensational media coverage, & the type of […]

This study of the Task Force on Suicide in Prisons uncovered many differences between countries in suicide prevention activities in prisons. Mental health professionals remain central in all such activities with inmate peer support & correctional officers also playing critical roles. There is great variation in the involvement of outside community workers. These differences could […]

Nitric oxide (NO) is a neurotransmitter which modulates depressive & aggressive behaviours. Gene variants of NOS-1 (enzyme NO synthase) & NOS-III in 167 suicide attempters, 92 suicides, & 312 healthy subjects in Germany were studied. A NOS-I risk haplotype C-G-G was associated with suicidal behaviour & more specifically with suicide attempts. Sliding windows analysis showed […]

The author discusses suicides which occurred in Germany at the end of World War II. He states the motivations of individuals dying by suicide were various & multi-faceted but what they had in common was a general feeling of insecurity & the lack of a future perspective. This article focuses on contemporary representations of suicide […]

This study assessed a screening instrument developed in the Netherlands for early identification of potentially suicidal high-risk inmates. The screening instrument was retrospectively tested & further developed on the basis of 30 suicides occurring between 1991-2000 at the pretrial detention centre Berlin-Moabit & an equal-sized control random sample. The screening instrument turned out to be […]

This article re-examines Jewish responses towards Nazi racism by studying suicides among German Jews. The author’s purpose is two-fold: first, asking what motivated these suicides & secondly, how far, if at all, Jewish suicides can be considered a form of resistance towards Nazism & to what extent they were acts of despair & hopelessness. (129 […]

Soluble interleukin-2 receptor concentrations in plasma were measured & temperament & character profiles & their potential correlation were investigated in formerly depressed patients with a history of suicide attempt. There were no significant differences in soluble interleukin-2 receptor concentrations in plasma between the patient group & age- & gender-matched controls. When compared to controls, suicide […]

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and the associated psychological and social factors of occasional and repetitive deliberate self-harming behavior in adolescents. DESIGN: Cross-sectional self-report survey. SETTING: One hundred twenty-one schools in Germany. PARTICIPANTS: A representative sample of 5759 ninth-grade students was studied between 2004 and 2005. OUTCOME MEASURES: Deliberate self-harm (DSH) and suicidal behaviors, emotional […]

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It is currently impossible to distinguish between patients with depression who will make a suicide attempt and those who will not. Prevention, therefore, must be based on the assumption that any patient with more than mild symptoms of depression is at risk of suicide, and can only be effective if it is applicable to all […]

A closer analysis was done on all postmortems performed on juveniles who died by suicide at the age of 20 or less during the period 1998-2003. A double suicide of a young couple in Berlin, who met on the Internet, is presented as a representative case. The authors emphasise that in view of the danger […]

This paper analyses one of the non-Nuremberg war crimes trials in Germany, specifically that which arose from the deaths of more than 400 people in the Hadamar Sanitorium. These individuals were put to death, allegedly suffering from incurable tuberculosis, under the Euthanasia Order passed in 1940 in Germany. The 7 defendants claimed a plea of […]

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