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Peer reviewedSlaby, Andrew E. – Death Studies, 1994
Approximately 60% of suicides are due to major affective illness; another 20% are due to affective spectrum disorders. Suicidal patients should be evaluated for major and minor psychiatric illness presenting with self-destructive impulses, and diagnosis-specific psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and sociotherapy should be provided. (Author)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Psychiatry, Self Destructive Behavior, Suicide
