Citation

Pompilil M, Lester D, De Pisa E, Del Casale A, Tatarelli R, Girardi P. Crisis 2008; 29(1): 45-48.

Affiliation

McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. maurizio.pompili@uniroma1.it

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18389645

Abstract

Psychological pain has been reported to be major contributing factor for completed suicide, and classical suicidology based its wisdom on this construct. In this paper we report the case of a patient whose family experienced a high number of suicides apparently due to an escalation of psychological pain in the family members after the successive suicides. We also briefly discuss the problem of helping survivors after the suicide of loved one.

Language: en