Recent data on suicide rates for professional people show that psychiatrists have an inordinately high rate--double that for other types of doctors. They also are known to have a comparable high rate of drug addiction. Whether these figures can be used to support a contention that psychiatrists are, as a group, more disturbed than the general population is another, and debatable, matter.
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists: The Common Roots of Psychotherapy and Its Future, p.49 (1986)
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