@article{ref1,
title="Self-incineration: a controlled comparison of in-patient suicide attempts. Clinical features and history of self-harm",
journal="Psychological medicine",
year="1986",
author="Jacobson, R. and Jackson, Martin and Berelowitz, M.",
volume="16",
number="1",
pages="107-116",
abstract="A systematic survey of in-patient accidents and injuries in an inner London hospital over 9 years established that, after incisions and overdoses, self-incineration was one of the commoner methods of violent self-harm. A case-controlled study of in-patient suicide attempts compared a series of 12 self-incinerators with 12 patients using other methods. Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm. Younger age, greater psychiatric morbidity, absence of alcoholism, a history of childhood arson, past and current self-burning were the features specific to self-incineration, which had a 25% mortality rate.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2917",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}