Suicidal behavior
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Suicidal behavior
- Here are entered works on attempted suicide. Works on deliberate acts of self-harm in which there is no intent to die are entered under [Parasuicide.]
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005706
- info:lc/authorities/sh88005706
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh88005706#concept
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Variants
- Attempted suicide
- Suicide, Attempted
- Suicide attempts
- Unsuccessful attempted suicide
- Unsuccessful suicide attempts
Broader Terms
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Suicide : understanding and responding, c1988.
- found: LC database, Sept. 9, 1988 (Suicidal behavior)
- found: Thes. psych. index terms (Attempted suicide)
- found: Xrefer, via WWW, Aug. 21, 2002: Oxford English ref. dict. (parasuicide: 1) apparent attempted suicide without the actual intention of killing oneself 2) a person who has carried out or is considered likely to carry out such action) Macmillan encyc. (Psychologists have ... distinguished between attempted suicide (when death is intended but averted) and parasuicide (when self-injury but not death is intended)) Concise medical dict. (parasuicide: a self-injuring act (such as an overdose of sleeping tablets) that is not motivated by a genuine wish to die. It differs from attempted suicide in being common in young people who are distressed but not seriously mentally ill. However, many people who have acted in this way go on to attempt, or even to achieve, suicide; suicide: self-destruction as a deliberate act. Distinction is usually made between attempted suicide, when death is averted although the person concerned intended to kill himself (or herself), and parasuicide, when the attempt is made for reasons other than actually killing oneself)
- found: Shaw, S.L. Prompting events for parasuicide and drug use in borderline personality disorder, 2001: p. 1 (parasuicide, defined broadly as both unsuccessful suicide attempts and deliberate self-harm inflicted with no intent to die)
- found: MeSH browser, via WWW, Oct. 8, 2002 (Suicide, Attempted. Scope note: The unsuccessful attempt to kill oneself.)
- notfound: Hennepin;NIH;Kaplan psych.;Kaplan clin. psych.;DSM III;Am. psych. gloss.;Campbell psych. dict.
LC Classification
- RC569
General Notes
- Here are entered works on attempted suicide. Works on deliberate acts of self-harm in which there is no intent to die are entered under [Parasuicide.]
Example Notes
- Note under [Parasuicide]
Change Notes
- 2002-10-08: new
- 2002-11-21: revised
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