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Learning Objectives: After participating in this educational activity, the psychiatrist should be better able to 1. Identify the characteristic features of suicide reattempters. 2. Evaluate the limitations of the literature. 3. Compare the characteristic features of single attempters and suicide reattempters. The aim of this study is to identify the characteristic features of suicide reattempters. The recognition of the suicide reattempters population as a distinct clinical population may encourage future preventive and clinical work with this high-risk subgroup and thus reduce deaths. A systematic literature review was carried out in order to identify the key demographic, psychological, and clinical variables associated with the repetition of suicide attempts. In addition, we wished to analyze the operational definitions of the repetition of suicide attempts proposed in the scientific literature. Studies published from 2000 to 2012 were …