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MENNINGER MOTIVES FOR SUICIDE IN THE NOTES OF COMPLETED AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDES
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MENNINGER MOTIVES FOR SUICIDE IN THE NOTES OF COMPLETED AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDES

A A Leenaars, D Lester and B J Yang
Psychological reports, v 70(2), pp 369-370
01 Apr 1992
PMID: 1598362

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Psychology Psychology, Multidisciplinary Social Sciences
Brevard, Lester, and Yang in 1990, studying Menninger's motives for suicide, reported more evidence for the wish to be killed (i.e., self-blame or self-punishment) in suicide notes for completed suicides than in parasuicide notes for attempted suicide; however, they did not control for age and sex. A comparison of notes written by completed and attempted suicides that controlled for age and sex showed no differences in the presence of content which reflected Menninger's three motives for suicide, including the wish to be killed.

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