Experience of parental loss and later suicide: data from published biographies.
A study of 30 individuals who committed suicide whose biographies or autobiographies have been published revealed that 16 had experienced loss in childhood. There was an excess of loss caused by death and of fathers rather than mothers. Fourteen of the 16 losses occurred when the child was aged 6 to 14 (latency age).
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Richard Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D010333:Paternal Deprivation; D010553:Personality Development; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*