Citation

Mühl AM. Psychoanal. Rev. 1927; 14: 317-325.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1927, Guilford Publications)

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Abstract

An analysis of the more than 500 suicides that have occurred in San Diego from 1911 to 1927. 70% were due to despondency and depression over chronic ill health, that is, failure of adjustment. Since San Diego is a very mild, easy place to live, no other explanation for its having the highest suicide rate in the country for fifteen years holds than that it symbolically attracts regressives. "Physicians should be extremely cautious about advising people who are inclined to despondency or depression to go to a place where their regressive tendencies are apt to crystallize in the form of suicidal attempts." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)