title: Surviving the suicides of significant others: a case study.
abstract: Psychological pain has been reported to be major contributing factor for completed suicide, and classical suicidology based its wisdom on this construct. In this paper we report the case of a patient whose family experienced a high number of suicides apparently due to an escalation of psychological pain in the family members after the successive suicides. We also briefly discuss the problem of helping survivors after the suicide of loved one.
authors.affiliation: McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. maurizio.pompili@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pompili
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
authors.forename: Eleonora
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: De Pisa
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Del Casale
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tatarelli
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Girardi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D013534:Survival / Q000523:psychology*