Citation

Henderson S, Lance GN. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1979; 59(1): 31-39.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

420027

Abstract

The clinical usefulness of a typology of parasuicide, reported in a previous paper, has been improved. A finer grained classification, using six instead of only three clusters, has proved itself to be clinically highly realistic. By a new method of cluster analysis which examines 80 attributes in each of 350 patients, the following types of parasuicide emerge: (1) operant, not alienated; (2) repeaters; (3) depressed with high life endangerment; (4) operant and alienated; (5) wristcutters; (6) undifferentiated. This more detailed typology may offer some advantages for clinical management and research.

Language: en