Student Suicides — Looking at the Ceiling — Five Psychiatrists

Abstract

STUDENTS appear more likely to take their lives than other young folk, and this distinction seems more marked at Oxford and Cambridge than at other universities. Sir Alan Rook, from the department of human ecology at Cambridge, has recently studied the problem and has discussed the significance of his observations in an article in the British Medical Journal. Since the war student health services have been developed at almost every British university, and this has brought to light new information about the physical and mental troubles of students. One of the most striking features has been the high prevalence of . . .