Abnormal Suicide

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This paper introduces the topic of suicide in Abnormal Psychology as an indication of mental illness, as distinct from romantic cultural and philosophical understandings of choosing to terminate one's life. The paper looks at diverse references reflecting changes in models, over time, largely in response to improved knowledge of biochemical and biological factors, inducing mental illnesses of which suicidal tendencies are a symptom.

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"Romantic allegories refer to the heart broken or financially ruined who choose to commit suicide and as Daube described a `linguistics' of suicide of this more literary variety. (1972) However, suicide is usually a manifestation of known impairments in judgement and impulse induced by mental illness. For instance, what is now diagnosed as Major Depression often features suicidal ideation towards severe, often untreated cases in which suicide is attempted or completed. (WHO: 1994) The potential for suicide renders depression a disorder taken seriously by physicians and related professionals with the patient who mentions suicide identified as one for monitoring and therapeutic care."

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