Clinico-psychopathological characteristics of states in patients with suicidal attempts
Ostroglazov, V.G.; Lisina, M.A.
Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 100(6): 18-20
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 1997-7298 PMID: 10900682 Document Number: 517461
A total psychiatric examination of the persons, after attempted suicides was performed during a month of stay in the department of resuscitation of the N.V. Sklifosovsky Institute for the Emergency Medical care. In all the patients some mental pathology was found that took place in the moment of suicide and long before it. In most of the cases the disorders of either affective (48.7%) or schizophrenic (38.5%) spectrum were diagnosed. Psychogenic reactions to stress and personality disorders were in only 10.2% of the patients. In most of the patients (74.7%) a mental disease wasn't diagnosed before in spite of its long duration (11.5 years on the average).