Citation

Marneros A. Z. Klin. Psychol. Psychopathol. Psychother. 1997; 45(2): 183-195.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Verlag Karl Alber)

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Abstract

The 'extended suicide' is nosologically inspecific. But if we exclude cases of 'extended suicide in schizophrenic and organic paranoid-hallucinatory syndromes all other cases seem to have a similar motivational and dynamic background. It is based on a 'homisuicidal predisposition-triangle' having as basic line the obsessoid-hypernomic personality of the offender. The other two lines of the 'homisuicidal predisposition-triangle' are built by the special relationships between offender and victim and by the subjective evidence of desparation. The most important feature of 'extended suicide' is not an altruistic motivation but a blaptophobic one (fear of damaging someone). We discuss the differences between extended suicide and altruistic killing.

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