Suicide and Aggressive Behaviors in Severe Mental Illness
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatric Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2022) | Viewed by 2185
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forensic patients; schizophrenia; addiction; trauma; aggression; suicide; ethics in forensic psychiatry; migration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Suicide and Aggressive Behaviors in Severe Mental Illness”, in collaboration with the MDPI journal Brain Sciences (IF: 3.114).
Suicide and aggressive behavior appear to be intricately linked, as individuals convicted for violent crimes show an increased risk of committing suicide. Thus, it has been argued that interpersonal violence may arise from the same cognitive distortion as suicidal behavior. Initially hightened anxiety and fear may result in personal distress. The inability to release this distress in the form of violence may then give cause for self-directed aggression. The central overlapping factor in interpersonal and self-directed aggression is mental illness; there is evidence to suggest that people with psychiatric diagnoses are twice as likely to commit violent crimes and five times as likely to commit suicide.
Hence, this Special Issue aims to examine the effects of various biological, environmental, personal, and situational variables on aggressive or suicidal behavior in people with severe mental illness.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The research areas may include, but are not limited to, general and forensic psychiatric patients and prisoners.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Manuela Dudeck
Guest Editor
Dr. Judith Streb
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- forensic psychiatric patients
- psychiatric patients
- violence
- self-directed aggression
- violent crime
- biomarkers
- molecular mechanisms
- imaging data
- pharamcology
- genetics