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Anamnestic and psychiatric data are analyzed for attempted, threatened, and completed suicide cases. The conclusion may be drawn that the dangerous patient, suicidally speaking, is the one with a history of previous suicidal attempts or threats, and that the most dangerous period is when the patient appears to have recovered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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Farberow et al. (1955) studied this question.
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