Citation

Dermengiu D, Buda O, Dermengiu S, Klostermann P, Schneider V. Rom. J. Leg. Med. 1999; 7(4): 304-315.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Romanian Legal Medicine Society)

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Abstract

The present study was focused on suicides in Berlin - Germany's chief town and in the Eastern-European city of Bucharest - Romania's chief town. The cases were selected among the 2954 autopsies performed in 1993-97 at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the 'Freie Universtat' Berlin and among the 13.837 autopsies performed in the same period at the National Institute of Legal Medicine 'Mina Minovici' in Bucharest. We studied also the suicides from Bucharest 1993-97 with extensive references to the 1986-92 period, which is not only important from statistical point of view but also because the historical importance for the contemporary Romania. We have comparatively analysed suicides according to criteria as age, sex and suicide mode we have demonstrated the existence of an inverted pattern of suicides in males and females, determined by structural psycho-social difference between males and females, in the way they emotionally perceive and respond to adaptive stress. This sex related inverted pattern is not only perceptible in multiannual series but even the monthly evolution shows an asincronous suicidal dynamics. Our study also pointed out the existence of a transitional pattern concerning suicide modes towards a typical western culture structuring.

Language: en

Keywords

adaptation; adolescent; adult; age distribution; aged; article; autopsy; city; cultural anthropology; emotion; female; forensic medicine; Germany; history; human; Inverted pattern; major clinical study; male; Romania; school child; sex difference; Social and economical stress factors; social psychology; statistical analysis; stress; suicide; Suicide evaluation; Transitional pattern