Year: 1996 Source: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v.26, no.3, (Fall 1996), p.308-314 SIEC No: 19970673

This article comments on the case of a psychiatric patient who was suffering from psychosis & completed suicide at age 23, by hanging. The psychosis was not diagnosed until after the suicide. The possibility that the patient may have been suicidal was not considered by the psychiatric staff.