title: [Suicide attempts in the involutional and aged periods].
abstract: The authors studied 76 patients from 51-87 years who attempted to commit suicide. The main diagnostic categories were involutional, senile and reactive psychoses, alcoholism, and schizophrenia. The main syndromes during which such acts were attempted were anxious-depressive, depressive-hypochondriacal and depressive-delusional. The formation of suicidal tendency was precipitated by age involution, somatical disorders, psychogenic traumas. In most of the patients following the suicidal attempt, there were mental disorders, conditioned both by the main psychic disturbance and by the personality reaction to the suicidal act, due to which special psychiatric treatment was necessary.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D003702:Delusions; D003863:Depression; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006998:Hypochondriasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011599:Psychopathology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted
vernacular_title: O suitsidal'nykh popytkakh v involiutsionnom i starcheskom periodakh