A previous study of depressive psychosis—Gittleson (1966a) showed that depressives with obsessions attempted suicide six and a half times less often than depressives exhibiting obsession-delusion transitions (without change of content) or those without any obsessions at all. It was suggested that the essential “protective” factor against suicidal attempts was the phenomenological form of the obsession as an obsession and its persistence as such throughout the course of the depression.
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N. L. Gittleson (1966) studied this question.
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