Year: 1981 Source: Psychiatria Fennica, v.4, (1981), p.41-51 SIEC No: 19870881

A report is included of an anthropological research on a suicidal schizophrenic and his family in which one of the authors lived with the discharged patient and his family for approximately one month. The features of the family which contributed both to the suicidal and schizophrenic aspects of the patient are noted.