Resource Tag: SUICIDAL PERSONALITY

In certain patients, suicidality is not a symptom of another psychiatric disorder, but a central element of character structure. Treatment approaches that are effective in acute, symptomatic suicidal states may actually increase the long term suicide risk in such patients. Special treatment techniques are needed for patients with suicidal characterology.

Sixty white females, who had attempted suicide, were compared with the following control groups, non suicidal psychiatric patients, psychiatric patients who had threatened but never attempted suicide, and non suicidal normals. All were administered the MMPI, Leary Interpersonal Checklist and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory. (KB)

Study to determine whether significant differences between the personalities of suicidal and non-suicidal schizophrenics could be determined through the utilization of projective techniques. In addition, the various indicators and patterns appearing in the techniques were studied to determine their efficacy in differentiating between these two schizophrenic groups. (KB)

The objectives of this study were to 1) attempt to generate clinically meaningful statements about the general defensive structure of people who attempt suicide, and 2) to examine whether different defensive patterns emerge along the lines of hypothesized “suicidal types”. The Defense Mechanisms Inventory, the MMPI and the Adjective Check List were used to measure […]

Investigation to obtain mathematical models of the judgmental processes of Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Centre workers as they rate the acute suicide lethality of callers. These policy equations were subsequently compared with judgmental models of those same workers obtained from contrived or artificial forms of this judgment. (KB)

A study to identify the prominent personality and status characterstics of the female adolescent suicide attempter, to examine these characteristics as they relate to frequency of suicidal thought and to identify the psychological complex which predisposes the adolescent to attempted suicide. The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and a questionnaire were administered to 120 females. (KB)

Three typical case histories of survivors of attempted suicide are presented. These cases are representative of the upper, middle and lower class patients and also of serious, ambivalent, and gesture varieties of the pre-suicidal state. These case histories illustrate the clinical psychiatric psychopathology, together with their MMPI profiles. The MMPI profile interpretation of each patient […]

Study to determine if there were differing psychological characteristics between four different groups of 122 students at Brigham Young University and to determine if three different personality instruments (the MMPI, the Bipolar Psychological Inventory and the Behavioral Rating Schedule) administered to these groups could significantly, collectively or individually, identify these differences. (KB)

Personality type greatly influences a patient’s reaction to illness or disability. This study of 136 renal dialysis patients was conducted to gather information on the influence of personality in adjustment to chronic dialysis. Pre-dialysis personality assessment was followed up at 6,12,24 & 36 month intervals. It was found that all major aspects of adjustment could […]

Study to examine the risk taking propensities among life threateners and to determine the extent of rigid behaviors in choice decision situations. Sixty patients, divided into four groups, recent serious suicide attempters; past suicide attempters; psychiatric nonsuicidal depressed patients and psychiatric nonsuicidal crisis patients were administered the Rigidity Questionnaire, the Choice Dilemma Instrument and the […]

A detailed account, intended for non-specialist counsellors, of the connection between suicidal behaviors and depression. Various types of depression are classified and the theories of suicidal behaviors outlined. Psychosocial aspects influencing suicidal behavior are described and attitudes of the community towards suicide are given. (PB)

Observation of suicidal individuals supports the contention that a generalized deterioration of a sense of “value” in life is extant throughout suicidal populations. This study attempts to measure this value deprivation process using the Smith Value Analysis Index, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale and the Suicide Ideation Index Questionnaire. (KB)

Copies are available from the Suicide Information Center, 6377 Lake Apopka Place, San Diego, California 92119 at $3.00 U.S. per copy.

Study of the conditions and dynamics of adolescent suicidal behavior to determine the possible prescence of personality patterns or components that might distinquish suicide attempters from non-attempters. Subjects were interviewed and then administered the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, the Group Personality Projective Test and the Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank. (KB)

“Do you think there is a suicidal personality type?” This question was asked of 20 persons who had been involved with suicidal people, 10 being American Association of Suicidology members & 10 who were not. Suprisingly, the AAS members tended to think that there was a suicidal personality type whereas the others did not. This […]