Citation

Petrović S, Ivanivić V, Hajrović O, Milećević-Kalasić A. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 142-143.

Affiliation

Psychiatric Service, Hospital of PoZarevac, PoZarevac Health center, Belgrad Municipal gerontological hospital, Bratstva i jedinstva 135, 12000 PoZarevac, Srbija i Crna Gora. pslobsu@ptt.yu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Facultas Universitatis Studiorum Zagrabiensis - Danube Symposion of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16964135

Abstract

Suicide as a ubiquitous phenomenon initiates a large number of approaches. Besides the statistical figures that mainly reflect the demographic and pathological social aspects, we can speak about suicide from the point of view of biological facts, socio-medical and psychopathological events. In our work we use, as a method, case management with the focus on the family. Namely we observe disturbed family functioning, where one of the parents (father) is an alcoholic, and other (mother) is a person, who committed suicide due to depression using an insulin injection. On the other hand the son in adolescence had manifested a conduct disorder with personality disorder, while the daughter had prosomatic problems (diabetes mellitus) and fragile personality organization. Both of them after the mother's suicide experienced marked parasuicide attempts. Describing such a phenomenon using the example of one family, we point to the role of the observed model of transgenerative transmission in the realization of self-destructive behavior. We examine this phenomenon through the level of synchronic equals (actual moment of family functioning) and diachronic size (the suicide event in the past history of the family group). Besides, we discuss the suicide in the family as unifocal (suicide of one member of the family) and multifocal phenomenon (suicide of two and more persons), using the term of "suicide cascade" for this event. Within this phenomenon we determine the frequent destructive phenomenon (homicide - suicide) as socio-pathological, which is usually determined by the situation of affective restraint. Finally we point out that this phenomenon needs further investigations and continued observations that should indicate the most acceptable preventative models.

Language: en