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The Relationship Between Obsessions and Suicidal Attempts in Depressive Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

N. L. Gittleson
N. L. Gittleson*
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, 6
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A previous study of depressive psychosis—Gittleson (1966a) showed that depressives with obsessions attempted suicide six and a half times less often than depressives exhibiting obsession-delusion transitions (without change of content) or those without any obsessions at all. It was suggested that the essential “protective” factor against suicidal attempts was the phenomenological form of the obsession as an obsession and its persistence as such throughout the course of the depression.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 490 , September 1966 , pp. 889 - 890
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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References

Gittleson, N. L. (1966a). “The effect of obsessions on depressive psychosis”. Brit. J. Psychiat., 112, 253–259.Google Scholar
Gittleson, N. L. (1966b). “The phenomenology of obsessions in depressive psychosis.” Ibid., 112, 261–264.Google Scholar
Gittleson, N. L. (1966c). “The fate of obsessions in depressive psychosis.” Ibid. Google Scholar
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