ABSTRACT

This chapter consists of six parts, sometimes called contextual clues, focused on clarifying suicide, biological roots, brain dysfunctions, physical disabilities and illness, depression, specific precipitating events, and the family system. Suicide is a psychological drama on an interpersonal stage; this is so for police. Suicide can be clinically understood from at least, the following templates or commonalities of the intrapsychic factors: unbearable psychological pain, cognitive constriction, indirect expressions, emotional, and a feeling of being vulnerable Psychological Services Section of a police department. This section serves like an introductory course to our topic. It consists of a number of sections: definition of suicide; intentional, subintentional and unintentional; suicide facts and myths; attempted suicide; forensic observations; and behavioral clues. Sigmund Freud, Edwin S. Shneidman, Henry A. Murray, and others have speculated that beyond intentional suicides, there is a vast array of subintentional inimical behaviors.