Citation

Leenaars A, Lester D, Wenckstern S. Psychol. Rep. 1999; 85(2): 363-364.

Affiliation

University of Leiden, The Netherlands. draalee@wincom.net

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10611765

Abstract

Alcoholism is associated with a vast number of suicides. The most systematic study of suicide among alcoholics is the work of Eli Robins and George Murphy. The suicide notes in these studies have remained unanalyzed to date. The present analysis suggested that these suicide notes of alcoholics did not differ from those of nonalcoholics; core themes in their deaths are unbearable psychological pain, cognitive constriction, indirect expressions, rejection-aggression, and identification-aggression. Although caution is in order in accepting the null hypothesis, we can at least suggest that further study is needed.

Language: en