Virgins As a Risk Group the Representation of Suicide

Abstract

From Autothanasia to Suicide–Self-killing in Classical Antiquity, by Anton J. L van Hooff, is published by Routledge, London (£35, 306 pp., 1990). This is the first book by this author who is a senior lecturer in ancient history at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands. Suicide over the Life Cycle, edited by Susan T. Blumenthal and David J. Kupfer, is published by American Psychiatric Press, Washington. DC (£55.95, 799 pp., 1990). Dr Blumenthal is Chief of the Behavioural Medicine Unit and former head of the Suicide Research Unit in Maryland. Dr Kupfer is Professor and Chairman at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Youth Suicide, edited by Peter Cimbolic and David Jobes, is published by Charles A. Thomas, Illinois ($26.75, 122 pp., 1990), Dr Cimbolic is Director of the Counselling Centre at the Catholic University, and Associate Professor of Psychology. Dr Jobes is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Catholic University,