The Psychological Autopsy

The best way to grasp the essence of death scene investigation (DSI) is to witness its application called the psychological autopsy by an expert forensic scientist/clinician. This remarkable book affords the opportunity to delve into the challenges that the forensic mental health specialist and public safety professional confront in DSI. Suicides and often death are complex multidetermined events. People whether police investigators or mental health professionals are generally perplexed and even confused when they are confronted by the equivocal case. Was it a suicide? Homicide? Accident? These are critical questions. Dr. Leenaars shows that DSI is however not mysterious; the reader can learn the generally accepted evidence-based protocols of the psychological autopsy. Illuminated by individual (idiographic) case studies and general (nomothetic) research this definitive guide allows the investigator to uncover the bare bones of a suicide or death. . Language: English