Citation

Brevard A, Lester D, Yang Lester B. Crisis 1990; 11(1): 7-11.

Affiliation

Scottsdale Police Department, Arizona.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2376149

Abstract

Suicide notes written by completed suicides were compared with suicide notes written by attempted suicides for the three motives for suicide described by Menninger. The motives of escape from pain and anger directed toward others did not differentiate the two samples of notes, but suicide notes written by completed suicides were more likely to have the motive of self-blame.

Language: en