Citation

Sarchiapone M, D'Aulerio M. Suicidol. Online 2015; 6(1): ii.

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(Copyright © 2015, The author(s), Publisher Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy)

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Abstract

Suicidal behaviour is recognized as a multifactorial phenomenon, determined by the influence of significant factors, including biological, psychological and social-cultural aspects. To date, most studies have focused their attention on the relationship between suicide and psychological and biological factors and several data about this are available. Few studies have analyzed the relationship between suicide and cultural aspects, making this study area relatively incomplete and poorly defined (Colucci & Lester, 2012).

Epidemiological data showed that suicide affects all countries in the world, with very different rates across the countries and relatively stable over time (Colucci, 2006).

These differences cannot be explained only by the biological components and/or the individual predispositions, but can be understood taking into account the cultural differences between people...

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