Suicide
In the early 19th century there developed a concern over the rising rates of suicide. Suicide became the subject of medical and social investigations. More and more efforts were made to identify the conditions leading to such self-destructive behavior, develop ways to treat suicidal patients, and to have statistics for further research. The medical profession searched for a connection between suicide and mental disorders. The French scientist Esquirol came to the conclusion that while self-destructive behavior was often viewed as a symptom of insanity, suicide itself was not a mental disease. He also was the first to observe that the greatest number of suicides happened in the spring and that men killed themselves more often than women. In 1822, a Frenchman by the name of Falret, released a study identifying four causes of self-destructive behavior: predisposition, due to heredity or environment; accidental direct factors such as passion or worry; accidental indirect factors such as illness or pain; and civilization and religious fanaticism. His work pointed out tha
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