Friedman Richard C, Corn Ruth, Hurt Stephen W, Fibel Barbara, Schulick Joan, Swirsky Sandra
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1984 Jul;54(3):390-397. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1984.tb01505.x.
Highly suicidal, depressed adolescents were compared to nonsuicidal depressed adolescents with regard to family history of illness. Chronic psychiatric illness of a parent, particularly depression occurring during the childhood of patients, was found to be more frequent among families of highly suicidal adolescents. Implications of this finding are considered.