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AN ANALYSIS OF THE SEQUENCE OF SELECTED EVENTS IN THE LIVES OF A SUICIDAL POPULATION: A PRELIMINARY REPORT

This paper reports the findings of a study on patients admitted to the New Hampshire Hospital at some time between 1940 and 1970, who ultimately committed suicide. The purpose was to focus on the ordering of events in the lives of these patients which led to their self-destruction. Some research has been conducted on former mental hospital patients who completed suicide, but no attempts have been made to establish the ordering of events in the lives of these patients that may have accounted for their suicidal behavior. The assumption here is that research must consider the sequential ordering of significant life events, rather than study isolated factors. In this way the “life style” of a suicide can be examined. From this may stem practical intervention procedures for preventing suicides of formerly hospitalized psychiatric patients.