Resource Tag: HISTORICAL STUDIES

This article describes the case of a 15-year-old who demonstrated many self destructive behaviors. She was admitted to the hospital because she traumatized a post-operative incision & prevented it from healing. Once in the hospital, she displayed numerous other self destructive tendencies (e.g. swallowing safety pins). The patient’s traumatic childhood & family life is detailed, […]

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To illustrate rhetorical approaches to texts in the social sciences, this essay takes Durkheim’s “Suicide”, commonly thought to be a positivist exemplar, & reads it as moral discourse. The first part suggests the illumination given to the patterns of argumentation when the volume is treated as a response to a contemporary situation that could be […]

The author diferentiates between the normal grieving process & those responses that are pathological & indicative of underlying neuroses or psychosis. Case histories are presented and explored in psychoanalytic terms. Implications of dreams, unresolved developmental stages, and the use of defensive mechanism are examined.(NBB)

The purposes of this paper are to emphasize the possibilities of employing a scientific & experimental approach in the investigation of the psychological nature of suicide, and to illustrate the products of this approach by citing some of the tentative results from the authors’ investigations to date.

Translation by John Spaulding & George Simpson.

A study on different causes of suicide, concentrating on a Russian emigrant, the hardships leading to suicide, influence of his religion and socio-economic conditions in new surroundings. (RV/KB)

An examination of the mass suicide from the historical point of view; the effects of modern historical events, social conditions, geographical locations, occupations and sex on the frequency of suicide. (RV/KB)

Describes present attitude towards suicide in France and explains this by reviewing philosophical developments from pre- Roman Gallic till modern French history. (NV/KB)

An examination of the way in which fluctuations in business in the United States affect different groupings of the population, as reflected by fluctuations in the suicide rates. An in-depth study of the relationship between suicide and the business cycle is given for Chicago. (KB)

A study of suicide in its relation to social and personal disorganization, consisting of an analysis of individual cases of suicide, their classification into types and the establishment of certain generalizations regarding them. (KB)

This study describes and analyses certain social and ecological variables associated with suicide in San Francisco and the East Bay area for the periods 1938-1942 and 1948-1952. The primary concern is with the spatial distribution of suicide and the urban typology developed by Shevky and Williams is used to determine its usefulness as a predictor […]

Survey of suicidal behaviors in Europe, discussing methods, causes, urban versus rural aspects, family relationships, suicide and religion, suicide and homicide, influence of war, political and economic crises, mental disorder and alcoholism, and psychiatric theories. (NV/KB)

The problem of early diagnosis of possible suicidal outcomes in patients is of paramount importance in the treatment & prevention of suicidal trends. Such diagnosis is possible on the basis of observations of mental mechanisms & anamnestic data, which become valuable criteria before the suicidal tendency comes out fully in the trend of the patient. […]

An essay dealing with three aspects of suicide; “to consider the effects of suffering on the human character; to show that self destruction is incompatible with the Christian religion; and to examine in what consist the highest dignity of human nature”. (KB)

Data from a 1942 field study & other sources were used to study patterns in 33 Navajo suicides. Only 4 cases involved women. The method of suicide appeared to be dictated by availability of means. Two principal motives for suicide were interpersonal problems/grief & avoidance of the consequences of crime or illness. It was found […]

A study of suicide and homicide among the Maria tribe of India, excluding ritualistic or religious suicides. (KB)