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Panic Attacks and Suicide Attempts

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1991
To the Editor.— Weissman et al 1 and Johnson et al 2 reported cross-sectional survey results from the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program to show that a history of panic attacks signaled a markedly high lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts, even in the absence of other diagnosed psychiatric disorders.
J C, Anthony, K R, Petronis
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Suicide Attacks in Israel and Suicide Rates

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2006
In Israel from 1983 to 1999, the frequency and lethality of suicide attacks was negatively associated with the suicide rate.
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Religion and Support for Suicide Attacks

Psychological Science, 2009
In four studies carried out across different cultural, religious, and political contexts, we investigated the association between religion and popular support for suicide attacks. In two surveys of Palestinians and one cognitive priming experiment with Israeli settlers, prayer to God, an index of religious devotion, was unrelated to support for ...
Ginges, Jeremy   +2 more
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Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts in Panic Disorder and Attacks

New England Journal of Medicine, 1989
Panic disorder, which is found in about 1.5 percent of the population at some time in their lives, includes recurrent episodes of sudden, unpredictable, intense fear accompanied by symptoms such as palpitations, chest pain, and faintness. Panic attacks, which do not meet these diagnostic criteria fully, are two to three times more prevalent.
M M, Weissman   +3 more
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Islam and Suicide Attacks

2019
This Element explores the disputed relationship between Islam and suicide attacks. Drawing from primary source material as well as existing scholarship from fields such as terrorism studies and religious studies, it argues that Islam as a generic category is not an explanatory factor in suicide attacks.
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Terrorism, Signaling, and Suicide Attack

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2004
This article examines the strategic utility of suicide terrorism. Suicide terrorism, we suggest, can be thought of as a form of strategic "signaling." We define terrorism as a signaling game in which terrorist attacks are used to communicate a group's character and objectives to a set of target audiences.
BRUCE HOFFMAN, GORDON H. MCCORMICK
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Suicide attacks and Islamic law

International Review of the Red Cross, 2008
AbstractSuicide attacks are a recurrent feature of many conflicts. Whereas warfare heroism and martyrdom are allowed in certain circumstances in times of war, a suicide bomber might be committing at least five crimes according to Islamic law, namely killing civilians, mutilating their bodies, violating the trust of enemy soldiers and civilians ...
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Suicide report attacks men's magazines

BMJ, 2000
Magazines aimed at the male youth market may be partly responsible for the rising suicide rate among young men, according to a report published last month by the Men's Health Forum. Psychologist Trefor Lloyd, a Forum executive, blamed the magazines for celebrating a “laddish” culture in a society where such behaviour is out-dated. “For the first time,
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