title: Completed suicide: a taxonomic analysis of clinical and social data.
abstract: A post mortem enquiry has been made into the social family and clinical circumstances of 50 individuals who, according to a coroner's verdict, killed themselves in Brighton. A dimensional analysis of the 123 variables thus collected suggested the possibility of three distinct types of suicide: "depressive suidice', "sociopathic suicide' and "physical illness suicide'. The reliability of this typology has been checked by the analysis of 55 selected variables for a total of 193 cases considered by the same coroner. A cluster analysis has confirmed that the data contained at least three independent types of suicide. Some implications for the prevention of suicide are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003334:Coroners and Medical Examiners; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D004739:England; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D012923:Social Class; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted