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notable figures: Emile Durkheim

(4.15.1858 - 11.15.1917)


This French sociologist and philosopher contributed to psychiatry a theory of suicide as arising out of social conditions and described four types of suicide: altruistic, anomic, egoistic, and fatalistic. 



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