Author/Editor		Milčinski, Lev; Zalar, Bojan; Virant-Jaklič, Mira
Title		Suicide and Slovenia - 1995
Type		monografija
Place		Ljubljana
Publisher		Slovenian academy of science and arts, University psychiatic clinic
Publication year		1997
Volume		str. 62
ISBN		961-6242-05-9
Language		eng
Abstract		This booklet is essentially an expanded annual report on suicides and on suicide attempts detected within the health care network in Slovenia. This report has been published under the aegis of the Psychiatric Clinic in Ljubljana since 1970. This report is the work of three authors and is directed primarily towards suicidology and not to prevention: in the first, theoretical chapter, Lev Milčinski wishes to shed light on the philosophical-ethical aspects of the phenomenon of suicide; further, with regard to the search for a possible organic substrate of suicidal tendencies; he mentions sociological, psychiatric and psychoanalytical trends in research into suicidal tendencies; he describes the psychodynamic. differences between (successful) suicides and suicide attempts; he mentions modern directions of research into suicide and efforts to prevent suicidal behaviour. The chapter ends with a critical discussion on the ethics of studying suicide in general, on the limits to justified preventive efforts and on the possibility of ethical refusal given today's widespread intensive push for the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide. The keyword of the second ćhapter (Bojan Zalar) is the frequency of suicide in the Republic of Slovenia, which has been high ever since the first annual report was issued. Here the emphasis is on the suicide burden of Slovenia in the light of statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO). As we know, in terms of its suicide rate over 30 years, Slovenia ranks second on the international list (behincl Hungaiy). After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the flourishing of democratic trends in Europe, Slovenia has found itself in (still to high) seventh place; the first places are now occupied by the newly independent Baltic states, followed by Russia, China and Hungary. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters)
Descriptors		SUICIDE SLOVENIA