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Ustalanie motywacji zamachów samobójczych
Establishing a motif for suicide

Author(s): Ewa Wach
Subject(s): Social psychology and group interaction, Personality Psychology, Psychology of Self
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: suicide motives; influence of other people on the suicide; occupational stress; mobbing; forensic expert’s opinion; psychological profiling of a dead person

Summary/Abstract: Psychological profiling and analysing the life situation of a person who committed suicide are only some of the tasks that forensic psychology deals with. Its purpose is to establish the potential motives behind the suicide. The above mentioned activities are taken if there is reasonable doubt whether the death of a given person resulted from suicide or murder, but also when post-mortem examination and crime scene investigation clearly indicate suicide but the motives of the perpetrator are not known. It is of vital importance to try and reconstruct the mental condition and the motivational process of the suicide especially if it is suspected that making an attempt on one’s life was caused by the detrimental effect of other people or institutions.

  • Issue Year: XI/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 61-78
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish