Abstract
In 1981, I wrote:
Virtually everyone engaged in suicide research agrees that it is time to move from static, structural, descriptive profiles of self-destructive behaviors to dynamic developmental models. Suicidal lethality (the probability of committing suicide) varies over time and among different types of individuals (and groups). It is argued here that the suicide’s biography or “career” is always relevant to his or her self-destructive reaction to crises and that it is precisely this history, individual or group, which tends to be neglected. (Maris, 1981, p.9)
Suicide is, in short, the one continuous every-day, ever-present problem of living
Daniel Stem
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Maris, R.W. (1991). The Developmental Perspective of Suicide. In: Leenaars, A.A. (eds) Life Span Perspectives of Suicide. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0724-0_3
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