Böcker av Maurizio Pompili

Most cases of suicide (81 per cent-95 per cent) in the general population involve psychiatric illnesses, nearly half of which (48.5 per cent) are mood disorders. This book reviews whether the use of antidepressants is associated with benefits in terms of completed or attempted suicide.

Cigarette smoking is associated with an increased risk for suicide. However, findings regarding this relationship are not yet consistent. This book examines the findings in regards to the increased risk in suicide among cigarette smokers.

Why an entire volume on suicide in schizophrenia? It would appear that international literature already provides enough information in this field. Also, the daily growing number of papers on suicide among schizophrenic are certainly a more updated source of information may contribute to the reduction of deaths by suicide among these patients. Yet, as in the case of suicide as a whole, this progress of knowledge does not match with reduction of suicide rates, let alone reduction of suicide rates among people with schizophrenia. Maybe a summary, an overview that cannot be achieved with a simple Medline search may help those who are involved and those who should be involved in the prevention of self-killing of schizophrenic patients. This book, therefore, reports essays of some of the opinion leaders in the field with the aim to shed light to such overwhelming phenomenon.