Year: 1972 Source: Emergency Medicine, v.4, (January 1972), p.25-28 SIEC No: 19850835

This article urges physicians to assess the suicide potential of their patients. Most of those who attempt suicide, says psychoanalyst Dr. Charles W. Wahl, have 3 things in common: recent loss of person, love, bodily integrity or status; an enormous sense of rage & frustration; & recent failure or humiliation. (NBB)