title: The study of suicidal lives.
abstract: Thirty suicides about whom book-length biographies have been written were examined in the framework of the ten statements formulated by Leenaars for each of his ten theories of suicide. Suicides who fit well with particular theories were identified, and the theories compared both for their success in describing the suicides and for their similarity with one another.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ 08012.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D001680:Biographies as Topic; D005197:Famous Persons; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*