Comments on: Suicide Jumpers From The Golden Gate Bridge

By: More on Suicide Jumpers: The Movie - PsychiatryTalk

More on Suicide Jumpers: The Movie - PsychiatryTalk — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:10:47 +0000

[...] past November 11ththe title of my weekly blog was Suicide Jumpers From the Golden Gate Bridge. It was based on an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry that analyzed the phenomena of [...]

By: David Goldberg, Psy.D.

David Goldberg, Psy.D. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:59:35 +0000

A very interesting article. For those interested, there is a documentary called "The Bridge" in which the foot-traffic on the bridge was filmed for a year. Several times the film captures jumpers and would-be jumpers. The family and friends of the jumpers are then interviewed. The film is powerful and chilling. Here is a link with a blurb about the film: http://www.documentaryfilms.net/index.php/the-bridge-a-year-in-golden-gate-bridge-suicides/ ( Also here is the Netflix link to this fascinating documentary - MB )

By: Seeth Vivek, MD

Seeth Vivek, MD — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:33:52 +0000

Michael,
Enjoyed the piece. Glad you thought of this blog.
Hope you are enjoying the West Coast.
Seeth

By: andy weissman

andy weissman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:38:53 +0000

very exciting idea–solidly done
keep going Mike!

By: Noel S. Howard, M.D.

Noel S. Howard, M.D. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:48:00 +0000

Dr. Blumenfield,

Very well done–a real service to the profession & community at large.

A couple of questions:
1. My recollection is that some 40+ years ago a study was done of Golden Gate Bridge Jump survivors which indicated most [?] had changed their minds on the way down. Any info on that?
2. Any thoughts of including a bibliography?

Again, many thanks for a fine piece of psychiatric journalism.

( The Blaustein & Flemming article in the October 2009 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry issue has 20 references. There are two articles from the 1970s that discuss follow-up of persons who jumped and survived. or were stopped from jumping. In the latter article by Seiden attempted jumpers who were stopped between 1937 & 1971 (n=515) in 1978 94 % were alive or had died of natural causes. This suggests that they changed their mind. Of course the last case mentioned in the blog certainly changed his mind. – MB )

By: David Milstein

David Milstein — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:52:51 +0000

Dear Dr. Blumenfield,

Great piece. I plan to follow your postings.

David Milstein, M.D.

By: Bruce Shapiro, M.D.

Bruce Shapiro, M.D. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:24:17 +0000

Hi Mike -

Great idea!
And very well done.
I hope this gets the attention it deserves.

Hope all is well with you and your family.

Bruce