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...schoolteacher with a twelve-year-old boy in tow appeared last week at the University of Vienna's Psychiatric Clinic and told its chief. Dr. Hans Hoff: "If you don't take this child. I'm going to quit my job. He has threatened suicide, and I refuse to take the responsibility.'' Dr. Hoff agreed to treat the youngster and his problems, but he had charge of only one of many cases that have recently alarmed Vienna's teachers, public and press. In four months, 16 children aged 9 to 16 have tried...
...Hoff decided to try to put the whole matter in perspective. Last week he lectured school authorities and teachers (and through them, the press and parents) on "Youth in Crisis." In the first place, he said, this is no suicidal epidemic among Viennese youth-there are not many more attempts than usual, and the rate is little higher than in most of Western Europe...
...Hoff laid down these principles as governing children's attempts at suicide...
Teachers, said Dr. Hoff, should keep in closer touch with parents about their pupils' problems. And they should have better training in detecting the neurotic symptoms which most commonly lead to suicide attempts-especially excessive daydreaming, sudden drops in grades, and social withdrawal from teachers and class mates. Dr. Hoff gave one final warning: teachers must not underestimate the seriousness of children who use suicide threats as a form of blackmail. "They do not do it for a joke," he said, "but because they are in need of something...
...Margo Hoff, a handsome, grey-haired woman in her late 30s, took the show's grand prize of $1,000 (and a medal) for a striking vertical composition called Stage Fright - the terror an actor feels on looking out at row on row of tensely waiting faces in the audience. To achieve the effect of tenseness, Artist Hoff made her faces green, set against a background of red plush seats and surrounded by an ominous. midnight-blue black...