TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1975//
TI  - Suicide attempted by self-immolation
JO  - American journal of psychiatry
A1  - Andreasen, N. C.
A1  - Noyes, R. Jr
SP  - 554
EP  - 556
VL  - 132
IS  - 5
N2  - The authors found that 14 individuals who had attempted suicide by self-immolation all had psychiatric illness (most were psychotic), and many had religious preoccupations. There was a reversal of the usual male to female ratios for burn injury and for successful suicide--all 5 completed suicides were women. Although self-immolation as social protest was widely publicized during the years surveyed, the authors note that these individuals all attempted suicide for personal and irrational rather than morally idealistic reasons.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-953X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -