Dear Editor:
It appears from the literature reviews by Dr Margaret M Steele and Dr Tamison Doey1'2 that, both in America and in Europe, a broad definition of attempted suicide (AS) prevails, interchangeably replaced by deliberate self-harm (DSH), which is not, however, informative as to whether any suicidal intentions are associated with a self-harm action.3 Polish studies4 suggest that psychiatric patients with multiple DSH incidents without suicidal intentions differ from AS patients, for example, by personality profiles and emotional intelligence levels, what prompts an immediate assumption that differentiation between these 2 groups of patients is of therapeutic …
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