Pöldinger's suicidal development

According to Pöldinger, suicidal development takes place in these three stages:


 * 1) account,
 * 2) ambivalence
 * 3) decision – apparent relief, preparation.

A table with 16 questions is used to assess the danger (in the textbook )

Related articles

 * Ringel presuicidal syndrome

Reference

 * 1) RABOCH, Jiří and Petr ZVOLSKÝ, et al. Psychiatry. first edition. Prague: Galén, 2001. pp. 494–495.  ISBN 80-7262-140-8.

External references

 * Lecture: Fundamentals of Forensic Psychiatry (Czech language)