Abstract

To give an retrospective overview according to the so-called in-patient suicide especially in German psychiatric hospitals. Summary of results of the working group "Suicidality and the psychiatric hospital" during the last four decades in Germany. First, it could be shown that there was a real increase of in-patient suicides during the 70(th) and 80(th) years. Two other results are important 1) an impressive decrease of suicide rates in the two last decades and 2) the observation of a change from the new high-risk group "young schizophrenic patients" back to the traditional suicide risk group of depressed patients.

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