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Print Media and Suicide

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Abstract

The relation between print media and suicide is still a major issue. There is a difference between radio and TV news because it is a document that can be read, reread, duplicated, and found anywhere privately or in public with text and pictures.

To date, suicide cartoons impacts, with often dramatic characteristics, have never been discussed.

Pictorials reports may have various effects and consequences. They can be as well:

  • Informative = neutral, giving simple information

  • Preventive = positive for suicide prevention and postvention

  • Provocative = negative with contagious risks

This research was made from Pr. Jean Pierre Soubrier’s personal experience on suicidology, also following sociopolitical turmoil occurred in France.

Jean-Pierre Soubrier: deceased.

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  1. Fonds jean pierre soubrier en suicidologie, Observatoire national du suicide. ministry of health france, Paris, France

    Jean-Pierre Soubrier

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  1. Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Suicide Prevention Center, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Maurizio Pompili

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Soubrier, JP. (2022). Print Media and Suicide. In: Pompili, M. (eds) Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42003-1_34

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