@article{ref1,
title="Evolution of the psychological autopsy: fifty years of experience at the Los Angeles County chief medical examiner-coroner's office",
journal="Journal of forensic sciences",
year="2013",
author="Botello, Timothy and Noguchi, Thomas and Sathyavagiswaran, Lakshmanan and Weinberger, Linda E. and Gross, Bruce H.",
volume="58",
number="4",
pages="924-926",
abstract="The origin of the psychological autopsy was in the late 1950s and the result of a collaboration between the Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office and the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center. It was conceptualized as a thorough retrospective analysis of the decedent's state of mind and intention at the time of death. It was used initially in &quot;equivocal&quot; deaths where the manner of death was possibly either suicide or accident. Later, it was used in cases where a party (primarily family members) protested the Medical Examiner-Coroner's suicide determination. Over the past 25 years, the University of Southern California Institute of Psychiatry, Law, and Behavioral Science has served as the psychiatric/psychological consultants to the Coroner's Department. Research findings, the use of this approach in high-profile cases, and the most recent manner in which the psychological autopsy is conducted are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-1198",
doi="10.1111/1556-4029.12138",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12138"
}