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Mary K. Hinchliffe, Douglas Hooper and F. John Roberts in their book 'The Melancholy Marriage' observe that-

"Studies of attempted suicides cases have also revealed the high incidence of marital problems which lie behind the act. In our own study of 100 consecutive cases (Roberts and Hooper 1969), we found that most of them could be understood if the patients interactions with others in their environment were considered."

(P.5) Such persons possess a peculiar psychology which instils extreme love and devotion but when they are faced with disappointment or find their environment so unhealthy of unhappy, they seem to loose all the charms of life. The authors while describing these sentiments observe thus :

"I see them all so excellently fair-
I see, not feel, how beautiful they are ;"

At another place the author (Hinchliffe, Hooper & John) come to the final conclusion that ruptured personal relationship play a major part in the clinical picture and in this connection observed thus :

"Initially we applied these ideas to study of cases of attempted suicide (Roberts and Hooper 1969) and although we did not assume that they were all necessarily depressed, we looked for distal and proximal causes for their behaviour and found that ruptured personal relationships played a major part in the clinical picture."