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Suicide and Aggressiveness (IN: Suicide: The Gamble With Death, by Gene Lester and David Lester)
Lester G~~Lester D
Conflicting views about the direction of aggressive tendencies & suicidal behaviour are discussed. While research does not show that suicidal persons are unaggressive or inward-aggressive, clinicians disagree. It is suggested that students of the relationship between suicide & aggressiveness need to study impulsivity as well in order to come to accurate conclusions. 9 Refs. (LH)