Depression as an Indicator of Lethality in Suicidal Patients (IN: The Psychology of Depression, edited by R J Friedman and M Katz)

The authors detail the differing rates of depression among several characterologic suicidal groups (which they call suicidal subgroups). They also contrast the rate of depression between those patients within each characterologic group who actually killed themselves and those who did not. Discuss the question, “Is depression a unitary concept?” (7 refs)