Citation

Murphy GE, Armstrong JW, Hermele SL, Fischer JR, Clendenin WW. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 1979; 36(1): 65-69.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, American Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

760697

Abstract

We earlier reported that nearly one third of a consecutive series of 31 alcoholics who committed suicide had experienced loss of a close interpersonal relationship within six weeks or less of their death. In a replication study of 50 additional unselected alcoholic suicides, we found that 26% had experienced such loss within six weeks. As before, the distribution of such events was strikingly and significantly skewed toward the final weeks of the subject's life. This powerful confirmation gives added significance to such loss as a predictor of suicide among alcoholics.

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