Manifestations of suicidal behavior in patients with organic mental disorders

Relevance of the investigation is caused by insufficient study of the problem of suicidal behavior in organic mental disorders, which are the most common type of mental pathology in suicidal persons. Objective: to identify suicidal manifestations features typical for patients with organic mental disorders. Materials: 133 patients (38 men and 95 women) suffering from organic mental disorders with suicidal behavior. Methods: anamnestic method, method of "psychological autopsy". Results: some of the typical features of suicidal manifestations in organic mental disorders were established. These were as follows: equal tendency to affective intense or affective reduced type of pre-suicidal period; limits of the typical duration of the pre-suicidal period from one day to one month; predilection to analytical type of the post-suicidal period; prevalence of real content of the suicidal conflicts; "an appeal" as a typical psychological motive of suicidal behavior; peak of a week cycle of suicidal activity in the Tuesday, and peak of its daily cycle in evening hours; hanging as a typical way of suicidal actions in men and poisoning - in women; more "dialogical" character of suicidal behavior in women in comparison with men. The obtained results matter from the point of view of the subsequent development of the differentiated approaches to prophylaxis of suicides in patients with organic mental disorders.