Predictability, Failure, and Guilt in Suicide: A Personal Account |
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| Authors: | PHYLLIS S WETHERILL MA |
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| Institution: | Private practice, marriage, family, child counselor;past president, California Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. |
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| Abstract: | The lifetime medical, social and psychiatric history of a young man who took his life at age twenty-one is presented as his mother observed and recorded it. The predictability of the suicide is discussed; questions are raised about personal and professional responsibility and guilt. |
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