COMPLEX SUICIDE AND PSYCHOLOGIC AUTOPSY - A CASE-REPORT

The authors report one case of complex suicide, of which establishing the exact circumstances of death (homicide, accident or suicide) and s tudying the gesture accomplishement (chronology, feasibility by only o ne person) was difficult for the forensic pathologists. Using the psyc hological autopsy method, they restore a psychiatric diagnosis for the dead patient and purpose psychopathological hypothesis. They finally stress the necessity of not to be satisfied with an incomplete respons e to treatment.