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Intimate partner violence is a hidden contributor to women’s suicide

By Victoria Rasmussen, PhD Researcher, School of Psychiatry / Senior Research Officer, UNSW Sydney
Australians are familiar with the disturbing statistics of intimate partner homicide: one Australian woman is killed every 11 days, on average, by a current or former intimate partner.

While these deaths are increasingly reported on, suicide represents a largely hidden and potentially far greater part of the intimate partner…The Conversation


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