Women and attempted suicide
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Women and attempted suicide
Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992
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ISBN 9780863771675
内容説明
Attempted suicide began to increase inexorably in western societies following World War II. In Britain it reached epidemic proportions in 1976, when 120,000 cases were reported. More accurately termed "self-poisoning" as the majority of cases involve deliberate, non-fatal overdosing on pills, this remarkable social-medical phenomenon remains without any generally accepted explanation. "Women and Attempted Suicide" suggests that two factors have contributed to this failure: the neglect of gender issues and the influence of psychiatry on explanations of deviant behaviour. Self-poisoning is a predominantly female phenomenon - women outnumbering men often by more than 2:1. Psychotropic drugs are commonly employed in sef-poisoning and here too women predominate among psychotropic recipients by 2:1. As the rate of psychotropic prescription fluctuates, so too does the rate of female self-poisoning. Despite these facts gender issues are almost entirely neglected in a literature dominated by psychiatry.
A largely fruitless search for psychopathology in self-poisoning has diverted attention from social factors whilst failing to account for one of its most definitive characteristics - the female predominance. "Women and Attempted Suicide" offers a new psycho-social explanation based on the theory of causal attribution. This suggests that as a result of their socialization individuals differ in the causes to which they attribute their problems and that some causal attributions are more helpful than others in coping with problems. The book argues that certain women - and others such as the unemployed and underprivileged who have limited control over their lives - acquire a "helpless" atributional style. This renders them less able to cope with adversity, more likely to turn to doctors for help when it befalls them, and more likely to receive psychotropics when doing so. When pills fail to solve problems, helplessness may turn to hopelessness and self-poisoning.
目次
- Epidemiology and the neglect of meaning
- current theories of self-poisoning
- a social psychology of self-poisoning
- women and sex role socialization
- learned helplessness and causal attribution
- causal attribution and female self-poisoning
- an attributional model of femal self-poisoning
- intervention.
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pbk. ISBN 9780863771682
内容説明
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
目次
- Epidemiology and the neglect of meaning
- current theories of self-poisoning
- a social psychology of self-poisoning
- women and sex role socialization
- learned helplessness and causal attribution
- causal attribution and female self-poisoning
- an attributional model of femal self-poisoning
- intervention.
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