Abstract
In the last century research in suicide assiduously tried to form different models for explaining the possible link between the suicide rate of a given country or region and the characteristics of social life of that territory. Theories of suicide range from ascribing a dominant, almost determining role to the influences of society on the suicide to a complete negation of any sociological factors involved in the self-destructive act.
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Buda, . (1984). The Role of the Individuation Process in Suicide. In: Hudolin, V. (eds) Social Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4535-0_44
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