Citation

Ghanizadeh A. Cases J. 2009; 2(1): 43.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)

DOI

10.1186/1757-1626-2-43

PMID

19138418

PMCID

PMC2635349

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Suicidal behavior in media may promote others towards suicide. No published study was found about suicidal attempt in children less than 10 years old after watching a homicidal behavior. CASE PRESENTATION: This is a report of a 7 year old boy referred because he hanged himself after watching homicidal behavior of hanging in a fictional movie. DISCUSSION: To the author's knowledge, there was no published report of copycat suicidal attempt in a 7 year old child after watching a homicidal behavior in media. This report warns about an imitative effect of movie watching of homicidal behavior on suicidal attempt.

Language: en