The Epidemiology of Suicide: Implications for Clinical Practice (IN: Suicide Over the Life Cycle, ed. by S J Blumenthal and D J Kupfer)

This article presents a detailed epidemiology of suicide, including age, sex, method, & Caucasian & non-Caucasian statistics. The authors also provide information about suicide among high risk groups. They discuss psychiatric populations, depression, alcoholism, schizophrenia, personality disorders, neurosis, & relatives of suicide victims. (VM)