Citation

Thiam MH, Gueye EM, Badiane SB, Kourouma BK, Sylla A, Sylla O, Gueye M. Dakar Med. 1999; 44(1): 131-133.

Vernacular Title

A propos d'une tentative de suicide par arme a feu chez un adolescent.

Affiliation

Service de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie Médicale, CHU de Fann, Dakar Fann, Sénégal.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Societe Medicale D Afrique Noire De Langue Francaise)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10798003

Abstract

This is the presentation of an adolescent's clinical case who tried to commit suicide with a fire arm during a depressive crisis. An emphasis is placed on the family interaction model and on a more global approach of the patient's personality. The authors underlined some of the problems raised by the diagnostic approach linked to the delirious syndrome, full of psychotic elements: themes of persecution, mystico-religious themes associated with impulsive escapade, all of them going with a depressive state. They gave also an important place to a pluridisciplanary treatment in those particular stages of crisis.

Language: fr