Psychological Autopsy

Abstract

The Psychological Autopsy (P.A) is a methodology to comprehend the psychological condition of a perished individual before death by remaking what the individual felt thought and did going before their passing. This is a Reconstructive Mental State Evaluation (RMSE) that can be characterized as a specialist request concentrated on observing some part of the psychological condition of an expired individual at a prior point in time. The recreation technique is completely founded on the individual records, clinical report, police inquiry, and eye to eye interviews with family, companions, and other people who are associated with the individual before their demise. Psychological Autopsy (P.A) is basically a psychological state assessment of the perished. The mental post-mortem examination advanced as a strategy to help explain reason for death, especially in the evaluated 20% of cases introduced to a clinical analyst/coroner where the exact method of death is hazy. All things considered, a mental dissection is an analytical apparatus that its advocate’s guarantee can help during the time spent building up whether an obscure demise was the aftereffect of regular causes, suicide, mishap, or murder. It was created by two clinicians in 1950's. The expression Psychological Autopsy was begotten by Edwin Shneidman, Norman Farberow, and Robert Littman. This article clarifies the significance of mental post-mortem examination and its application in getting suicides.