[Suicide in schizophrenic patients]

Based on retrospective investigation using hospital records of 44 schizophrenic patients of a rehabilitation department, who committed suicide between 1966 and 1986, the paper discusses demographic and psychological features of schizophrenic suicide in comparison with international literature. Subjects who committed suicide were found to be accumulated within age-range 25 to 30 years and between one or two years of duration of illness. 20% of subjects died in an acute psychotic state, 58% had been found within a depressive episode and 66% had confronted themselves with their social situation and/or future in the light of their illness.