@article{ref1,
title="Personality patterns of suicidal mental hospital patients",
journal="Genetic psychology monographs",
year="1950",
author="Farberow, Norman L.",
volume="42",
number="",
pages="3-79",
abstract="The feelings, attitudes, and perceptual responses of 64 suicidal males in a Veterans Administration Mental Hospital were compared with those of a matched group of non-suicidal patients. Patients who threaten suicide show extreme hostility, aggression, agitation, and irritability--their hostility appears to be largely directed toward the father or &quot;father figure.&quot; Patients who have attempted suicide seem to be characterized &quot;by a resigned sort of depression.&quot; They are more withdrawn and have a &quot;less actively directed fantasy life.&quot; &quot;There was also consistent indication that the accomplishment of an act intended as a means of destroying onself acts in an abreactive, apparently therapeutic manner upon the seriousness of the disturbance of the personality.&quot; 62-item bibliography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)<p />",
language="en",
issn="0016-6677",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}