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A History of Self-Harm in BritainSelf-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) and Suicide (1961) Acts

A History of Self-Harm in Britain: Self-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) and Suicide... [At the end of Stengel’s 1952 paper, ‘Enquiries into attempted suicide’, he speculates about the potential scale of this behaviour: [I]f the appeal character is such an important feature of the suicidal attempt as we have made it out to be, is there not a likelihood that this powerful and dangerous appeal will be used more and more, especially in a society which has made every individual’s welfare its collective responsibility? I think that this danger can easily be overestimated. ‘Attempted suicide’ is a behaviour pattern which is at the disposal of only a limited group of personalities.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Self-Harm in BritainSelf-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) and Suicide (1961) Acts

Part of the Mental Health in Historical Perspective Book Series
Millard, Chris
Springer Journals — Jan 15, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2015
ISBN
978-1-137-54773-6
Pages
97 –119
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-52962-6_4
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Abstract

[At the end of Stengel’s 1952 paper, ‘Enquiries into attempted suicide’, he speculates about the potential scale of this behaviour: [I]f the appeal character is such an important feature of the suicidal attempt as we have made it out to be, is there not a likelihood that this powerful and dangerous appeal will be used more and more, especially in a society which has made every individual’s welfare its collective responsibility? I think that this danger can easily be overestimated. ‘Attempted suicide’ is a behaviour pattern which is at the disposal of only a limited group of personalities.1]

Published: Jan 15, 2016

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