THE SUICIDAL METHODS USED BY THE PATIENTSWITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
Abstract:
This paper aims to analyze the logistical means and methods used by patients with
schizophrenia to achieve suicidal act. The basis of this study is a retrospective study on a total of 53
subjects diagnosed with various forms of schizophrenia, who during 2000 to 2009 died suiciding. The
analysis of the methods used by schizophrenic people in achieving suicidal act defined two ways, one of
was violent and the other one nonviolent both with the same fatal result. It is considered necessary to
implement standardized assessment criteria to evaluate suicide on a global scale, going over the
differences from one country to another in labeling a death as self-inflicted.
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