Citation

Andreasen NC, Noyes R. Am. J. Psychiatry 1975; 132(5): 554-556.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1119621

Abstract

The authors found that 14 individuals who had attempted suicide by self-immolation all had psychiatric illness (most were psychotic), and many had religious preoccupations. There was a reversal of the usual male to female ratios for burn injury and for successful suicide--all 5 completed suicides were women. Although self-immolation as social protest was widely publicized during the years surveyed, the authors note that these individuals all attempted suicide for personal and irrational rather than morally idealistic reasons.

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