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Women and Attempted Suicide

By Jack Raymond

Published February 1st 1992 by Psychology Press – 304 pages

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Description

Examining the phenomenon of attempted suicide, or "self-poisoning", this work offers a psycho-social explanation based on the theory of causal attribution.

Contents

Epidemiology and the neglect of meaning; current theories of self-poisoning; a social psychology of self-poisoning; women and sex role socialization; learned helplessness and causal attribution; causal attribution and female self-poisoning; an attributional model of femal self-poisoning; intervention.

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Name: Women and Attempted Suicide (Paperback) – Psychology Press 
Description: By Jack Raymond. Examining the phenomenon of attempted suicide, or "self-poisoning", this work offers a psycho-social explanation based on the theory of causal...
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