All members of the day-shift staffs in a British hospital and in an Israeli hospital (twenty-nine psychiatrists and fifty nurses) were interviewed in a replication study on attitudes toward self-poisoning patients. Although the two staffs differed in their suggestions of general reasons for self-poisoning, the motives ascribed to specific hypothetical cases and the degree of readiness to help and sympathize

were rather similar. Motives of "escape" and "communication" were suggested most frequently; only in one case was self-poisoning perceived as an attempt to manipulate others. Psychiatrists and nurses differed more within the British group than in the Israeli one. In both groups, however, nurses tend to be less accepting, less sympathetic, and less ready to help than doctors. The findings are discussed in relation to those obtained in the original study of staff in a general hospital.