Violence And Suicidality

First published in 1990. This monograph series, published under the auspices of the Department of Psychiatry of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, is meant to keep track of important developments in the profession pf psychiatry, to summarize what has been achieved in particular fields, and to bring together the viewpoints obtained from disparate vantage points-in short, to capture some of the excitement ongoing in modern psychiatry, both in its clinical and experimental dimensions. Violence and suicidality have always been major public health issues, but it is only fairly recently that they have become the focus of some major clinical and biological research efforts. This is due partly to a large increase in suicide and homicide rates in the young and partly to a realization that effective management of psychiatric patients cannot be based on categorical diagnosis alone, but requires an understanding of the patient's entire behavioral profile. This volume attempts to describe some of the most important advances in the psychobiological understanding of the behavioral dimensions of suicide and violence that have been made over the last 10 years. It is comprised of papers presented at two symposia held under the auspices of the department of psychiatry of Albert Einstein College of Medicine that were devoted to the topics of violence and suicide.

Herman M. van Praag Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center New York, Robert Plutchik Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Alan Apter Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

A Note on the Series, Contributors, Introduction, PART I. CLINICAL ISSUES, 1. Clinical Guidelines for the Assessment of Imminent Violence, 2. Psychiatric Liability for Patient Violence, PART II. ETHOLOGICAL ISSUES, 3. Psychosocial Correlates of Suicide and Violence Risk, 4. Aggression: Integrating Ethology and the Social Sciences, 5. Serotonergic Involvement in Aggressive Behavior in Animals, PART III. CLINICAL NEUROCHEMICAL ISSUES, 6. Monoamines and Suicidal Behavior, 7. Clinical Assessment of Human Aggression and Impulsivity in Relationship to Biochemical Measures, 8. Monoamines, Glucose Metabolism and Impulse Control, PART IV. ANIMAL NEUROCHEMICAL STUDIES, 9. Parallels in Aggression and Serotonin: Consideration of Development, Rearing, History, and Sex Differences, 10. Monoaminergic Control of Waiting Capacity (Impulsivity) in Animals, PART V. BASIC NEURORECEPTOR FUNCTIONS, 11. Functional Correlates of Central 5-HT Receptors, 12. Functional Significance of Central Dopamine Receptors, 13. Dopamine Agonist-Induced Dyskinesias, Including Self-Biting Behavior, in Monkeys with Supersensitive Dopamine Receptors, Name Index, Subject Index