How are Suicides Different? (IN: Assessment and Prediction of Suicide, edited by R W Maris et al)

This chapter notes the complexity & multidimensionality of suicide & briefly reviews the classical suicide typologies of Durkeim, Freud, Menninger, Baechler, & Shneidman, noting that these reflect the professional disciplines of their creators. It also discusses types of nonfatal suicide attempts, indirect self-destructive behaviors, ideas, & other deaths, aw well as the classification systems of suicidal behavior & ideas as formulated by the Beck Committee, Jobes, Ellis, & Maris. (36 Refs.)