We investigated this in Australia, comparing the five years before Cobain's death with the years afterward. Conventional wisdom suggested that the suicide of such an icon would increase risks for copycat. In fact, we were unable to establish this. There are a number of explanations, but the one we preferred was that Courtney Love had publicly denigrated the act to a crowd in Seattle, and her words reached all round the world. We suggested that the strategy might work more generally to stop copycat suicides.
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Graham was a UK GP before training in Psychiatry in Australia. He has been dedicated for more than 40 years to psychiatric practice in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Follow Graham's early development in over 40 posts below. Search for 'Making of a Child Psychiatrist'
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