title: Suicide and the conflicted soldier: a view from psychodiagnomics.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To move beyond the traditional, cross-sectional, ontogenetic, biopsychosocial, diagnostic formulation of suicide.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analysis of media reports, principally via Highbeam Research, of a noted case of a sudden and unexpected military suicide: Jacob Kovco.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ontogenetic diagnostic analysis, centering on the person, was successfully amplified by diagnostic analysis of time and place, in the cultural and historical, phylogenetic domain. It revealed an occult, dissociative depression. This method is called psychodiagnomics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ontogenetic analysis of suicide, especially biomedical analysis must be complemented by ontogenetic and phylogenetic analysis in the socio-cultural domains.
authors.affiliation: The Pierre Janet Centre, 8 Sunhill Court, Melbourne 3183, Australia, pierrejanetcentre@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D054542:Iraq War, 2003-2011; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*