title: [Unusual motivation in double suicide of a lesbian couple. Phenomenology, psychodynamics and influence of contemporary values].
abstract: Double suicides are regarded as uncommon phenomena. In particular, homosexuals are very rarely involved. It is reported on the unusual motivation of a dual suicide by hanging among two 20-year-old lesbian women. Due to abnormal psychic development and mutual induced reaction the thought of dying together and being reborn jointly in one person (a contemporary actor) arose. These ideas were influenced by spiritism and metempsychosis. The case is well-documented by diary records and will be discussed under phenomenological and psychodynamic aspects. Typical and atypical criteria of double suicides are featured.
authors.affiliation: Aus dem Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität zu Köln.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Grellner
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Krull
mesh_terms: D003702:Delusions / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010268:Parapsychology; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012753:Shared Paranoid Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012925:Social Conformity; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*