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The serotonin hypothesis of depression: both long discarded and still supported?
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Open AccessIncreased suicide risk among younger women in winter during full moon in northern Europe. An artifact or a novel finding?
Available evidence suggests that there is no effect of moon phases on suicidal behavior. However, a Finnish study recently reported elevated suicide rates during full-moon, but only among premenopausal women a...
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Learning about the course of suicidal behavior but not about the effects of SSRIs
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Moon and suicide: a true effect or a false-positive finding?
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Open AccessPerceptions of LGBQ+ youth and experts of suicide prevention video messages targeting LGBQ+ youth: qualitative study
Young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer as well as other sexual/gender minorities (LGBTQ+) persons have higher rates of suicidal ideation and behavior compared to their non-LGBTQ+ peers, particularly ...
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The suicidal process: a nonlinear dynamic perspective
Several suicidologists have suggested modeling suicidal processes within the framework of nonlinear dynamic systems (NDS). In this chapter, we summarize our NDS perspective on suicidal processes, developed in ...
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Open AccessGuidelines for the pharmacological acute treatment of major depression: conflicts with current evidence as demonstrated with the German S3-guidelines
Several international guidelines for the acute treatment of moderate to severe unipolar depression recommend a first-line treatment with antidepressants (AD). This is based on the assumption that AD obviously ...
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Open AccessSexual orientation differences in treatment expectation, alliance, and outcome among patients at risk for suicide in a public psychiatric hospital
Sexual minority (SM) individuals (gay, lesbian, bisexual, or otherwise nonheterosexual) are at increased risk for mental disorders and suicide and adequate mental healthcare may be life-saving. However, SM pat...
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Synergetics in Psychology: Patterns and Pattern Transitions in Human Change Processes
Synergetics has arrived in psychology. More than this – it has proven to be an inspiring research paradigm for investigating and modelling complexity and dynamics of mental, behavioural, and social phenomena. ...
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Explaining the Suicide Risk of Sexual Minority Individuals by Contrasting the Minority Stress Model with Suicide Models
Many studies have found elevated levels of suicide ideation and attempts among sexual minority (homosexual and bisexual) individuals as compared to heterosexual individuals. The suicide risk difference has mai...
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Religion and Suicide Risk in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Austrians
Religion is known to be a protective factor against suicide. However, religiously affiliated sexual minority individuals often report a conflict between religion and sexual identity. Therefore, the protective ...
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Bayesian Advice for Gaydar-based Picking Up: Commentary on Lyons, Lynch, Brewer, and Bruno (2013)
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Suicide Risk and Sexual Orientation: A Critical Review
Many studies have reported higher rates of suicide attempts among sexual minority individuals compared with their heterosexual counterparts. For suicides, however, it has been argued that there is no sexual or...
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The Relation Between Sexual Orientation and Suicide Attempts in Austria
Previous studies indicate that homosexual or bisexual individuals are at a higher risk of attempting suicide compared to heterosexuals. To overcome biases in these studies, more rigorous definitions of “suicid...
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Childhood Gender Nonconformity and Harassment as Predictors of Suicidality among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Austrians
The role of childhood gender role nonconformity (CGNC) and childhood harassment (CH) in explaining suicidality (suicide ideation, aborted suicide attempts, and suicide attempts) was examined in a sample of 142...
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Die Rolle von Religion und Religiosität in der Suizidologie
After a short overview of the positions of the main religions toward suicide, we present scientific papers investigating the relationship between religion/religiousness and both suicidal ideation and suicidal ...
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Geschlechtsrollennonkonformität in der Kindheit als Suizidrisikofaktor am Beispiel von homo- und bisexuellen Personen
Deviance from stereotypical gender roles (gender role nonconformity) is associated with negative social reactions from childhood onwards. Our article explores how childhood gender nonconformity correlates with...
