Suicidal behavior is an important issue in the military. There are some specific problems arising in the military surrounding. An army is a closed system that may restrict personal freedoms. Many servicemen loose significant relationships and have financial and psychological problems. An army is an aggressive masculine community and sometimes aggression is a part of the staff training. Firearms as a means of suicide are available in the military. A combination of psychosocial problems with availability of firearms contributes to incidents of suicide in the military. This book is dedicated to the relationship between military service and suicidal behavior. The impact of peacekeeping missions on suicidal behavior is also discussed. This book will be of interest to physicians, psychologists, other clinicians, experts in public health management, and military people.

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Editors:Leo Sher and Alexander Vilens

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Table of Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1. Suicidal behavior among peacekeepers: An international perspective
Per-Olof Michel¹, Siri Thoresen², Jitender Sareen³, Shay-Lee Belik³, Lars Mehlum².
¹Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; ²University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; ³University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada

Chapter 2. Suicide and mental health among peacekeepers: A review of the literature
Ellen Connorton.
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Chapter 3. Suicidal behaviour among current and former peacekeepers
Maurizio Pompili, Ilaria Cuomo, Giovanni Dominici, Ilaria Falcone, Giulia Iacorossi, Arianna Saglimbene, David Lester, Roberto Tatarelli, Stefano Ferracuti.
Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy; Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, New Jersey, USA

Chapter 4. Suicide prevention in the army
Maurizio Pompili, Silvia Rigucci, Daniela Di Cosimo, Melania Pugliese, Silvia Pontremolesi, Laura Sapienza, Marco Innamorati, David Lester.
Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy; Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Universita’ Europea di Roma, Rome, Italy; The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, New Jersey, USA

Chapter 5. The Swiss system of militia army – a suicide risk?
Andreas Frei.
Luzerner Psychiatry, Luzern, Switzerland

Chapter 6. The occurrence of suicide in the Hungarian Defense Force after the abolition of obligatory regular army between 2005 and 2007 in comparison with previous years. Suicide prevention in the military
Sándor Kalmár.
Private Practice, Kecskemét, Hungary

Chapter 7. Suicide prevention in the military
Barbara Schneider, Dirk Preuße.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany

Chapter 8. Suicide prevention in a top-down society
Said Shahtahmasebi.
The Good Life Research Centre Trust, Rangiora, North Canterbury, New Zealand

Chapter 9. Preventing suicide in the military: plenty of room for improvement
Leo Sher.
Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA

Chapter 10. The concept of posttraumatic mood disorder and its relation to suicidal behavior in war veterans
Leo Sher.
Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA

Chapter 11. Sleep disturbances and suicide prevention in the military
Leo Sher.
Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA

Chapter 12. Suicidality and suicide prevention among war veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury
Grahame Simpson, Robyn Tate.
Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia

Chapter 13. Alcohol and suicide
Leo Sher.
Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA

Index