The Psychological Autopsy: The Model Of Suicide

Improved Essays
The factor that suicide usually results from psychological pain may seem to be very obvious, but acknowledging this was a deviation for psychiatry. Depression and other psychiatric disorders, which are generally related with suicide, are diagnoses which are the coin of psychiatry department. However, psychological pain is an experience that may not be associated ( relate , associated , coherent , applicable )to any diagnosis. The psychologist Edwin Shneidman, founder of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, refused to agree on the model of suicidal behavior. He invented the term “psychological autopsy,” a method he used to show Marilyn Monroe’s death as a possible suicide case. The “autopsy” was comprised( consist , constitute , include

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    In the article “A Suicide at Twelve: ‘Why, Steve?” of Richard E. Meyer, the author narrates a whole life of a young boy whose name is Steve Dailey. Through the article, we could see the whole life of Steve from the day he was born to the day he chose a rope and bough to end his life although nobody, who lived around him, understood the reason why he had to kill himself. Therefore, the author still keeps a question “Why, Steve?” for the article. “Steve Dailey was born on July 30, 1961, in the Cincinnati suburb of Clifton.”…

    • 988 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    One of the first people to initiate a scientific study on suicide was a French sociologist named Emile Durkheim. He focused on the social factors that affected suicide until he finally came up with four types, that being, egoistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic. Durkheim further classified the four types into seven subtypes and six mixed types, but our focus will be on the four basic types (as cited in Maris,…

    • 71 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout the novel, Kesey incorporates metaphors and further characterizes one of the main characters, McMurphy, to critique the authority of the doctors that work with the patients in the hospital. To the other patients in the ward, McMurphy preaches to them about the importance of sticking up for themselves against the other nurses, doctors, and even patients. The author uses a rabbit metaphor to illustrate the difference between the patients and the doctors. “All of us in here are rabbits” (Kesey, 61). In the ward, the patients are the rabbits and the doctors are the wolves.…

    • 1345 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Suicide rates among the AI/AN population age fifteen to thirty-four years is almost 250% higher the general population and suicide is now the second leading cause of death for AI/ANs (Gray & McCullagh, 2014). Gray and McCullagh (2014), report that mental and behavioral health problems, stressful life events, and substance abuse are directly related to an increased suicide risk and unfortunately many AI/AN communities are affected by these risk factors in combination with more (drug and alcohol use, violence exposure, and limited resources). One theory as to why there is such a high suicide rate among AI/AN youth, as stated by Gray and McCullagh (2014), “is that there is a disconnect and a sense of loss of belonging to both their culture and…

    • 152 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The United State of America is known as the land of the free. Citizens have freedom of speech and freedom of the press along with many other rights, but do Americans have the right to die? The Cable News Network, also known as CNN, has followed the story of a terminally ill woman who fought for the right to die on her own terms. The article, “Brittany Maynard, Advocate for 'Death with Dignity, ' Dies” by Catherine E. Shoichet, summarizes the controversial and complicated subject of controlling your own death in the case of terminal illness. Published on November 1, 2014, the recent article helped spread the issue throughout social media leaving many people to question if we deserve to die with dignity.…

    • 820 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dahler, Don. “12-year-old's suicide spotlights cyber-bullying threat.” CBS Evening News. CBS Interactive Inc. 2013. Web.…

    • 894 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    * .. Myself, your anguished unpleasant distressed situation reminded me a number of years ago when I had some terrifying serious adverse side effects of certain prescription drugs, prescribe by my doctor to help assist me with my nerves, my dearest housewife "Sweetheart Asya". * .. As a result, it causes such a horrific panicking reaction in problematically affecting my breathing that I could hardly breathe normally for several hours. * * ..…

    • 250 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Suicide In Modern Culture

    • 1856 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Further study into psychological and mental behaviors and function led to recognition of an uncontrollable mental state. No one decides to commit suicide unless they are in an unhealthy state of mind, thus making their healthy decision-making unable to function properly. The mental illness is the source of the suicidal ideation rather than the person itself. Medicines have been put through multiple clinical trials to reveal the effectiveness of the drug. They are often compared with a placebo pill to see if the chemicals are actually making the difference or if the “feel good” effect is in…

    • 1856 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Weeeoooeee!! The sound of the ambulance in front of my house. Long ago when I was younger my brother, and I were riding our bikes, and Bam! Out of nowhere I was hit by a car. In the midst of it later found out my leg was broken, and when the doctors told my mother, I had no motivation to walk again.…

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    the room to the right of the investigators. It then moved quickly out of the doorway. “We researched the development of fog in interior spaces and found nothing scientifically that could substantiate what we were seeing on our infrared night vision camera that night,” said Todd. “The fog moved intelligently, we could not see it with our own eyes, and it seemed to avoid human contact.” One of the team’s favorite technological tools is the SB7 and the SB11 Spirit Boxes.…

    • 440 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Pas On Euthanasia

    • 1065 Words
    • 5 Pages

    A. (2015). Physician-assisted suicide: Considering the evidence, existential distress, and an emerging role for psychiatry. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 43(2), 183-190.…

    • 1065 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Suicide Argument Analysis

    • 713 Words
    • 3 Pages

    What is in dispute? The issue that is being disputed is the treatment and causes of suicide. The Claim Is it stated or implied? The claim is implied because it is not directly stated in the article. Even though the claim is not stated, the reader can decide what kind of claim it is because it provides a solution to the problem.…

    • 713 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ethical Suicides

    • 905 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Ethics, DNRs, and Suicides Ethics is defined by Oxford Dictionary as the “moral principle that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.” EMTs, similarly to other organizations, both inside and outside the health care profession, are expected to conduct themselves by a certain code of ethics. The code of Ethics and EMT Oath, which are a set of ethical guidelines created for EMTs, clearly states that one of the primary duties of a EMTs is, “To converse life, alleviate suffering, promote health, do no harm . . . (NAEMT.com). Even though it seems like duty and ethics to go hand and hand there are still instances that produce a disconnect between the two, creating ethical dilemmas for EMTs.…

    • 905 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “The Mind of Those Who Kill, and Kill Themselves” In Erica Good’s “The mind of those who kill, and kill themselves” from New York Times, she discusses the mass murders-suicides cases, where people want to kill themselves, but are afraid to die alone. How can the people that want to commit suicide be afraid to die alone? Why is it that they want to take a lot of innocent peoples’ lives with them to the death? There are many questions that don’t have an answer to such horrible crimes; that take so many innocent lives and futures and leave such a huge pain in their families’ lives.…

    • 559 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Imagine feeling so desperate, alone and suffocated that your walls are caving in and the only way you see out of this is by taking your own life. There is no other option. No one wants you. No one will care. You are not enough.…

    • 1136 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays