Addendum to Suicide in the Utah Underground

And for some very badly needed perspective on the suicide prevention question, see Suicide and violence assessment in psychiatry, General Hospital Psychiatry, Volume 18, Issue 6, November 1996, Pages 416-421:


"Psychiatrists are increasingly expected to predict and prevent the suicidal and violent/homicidal impulses of their clients...While the debate continues on whether the clinician can successfully predict either violence or suicidal behavior in their patients, the preponderance of studies weighs in that predicting suicide and violence in the individual may not be possible currently given present knowledge"