Psychopathologic characteristics of the presuicidal syndrome.

The presuicidal syndrome (PS) is presented in this study with its prodromal symptoms which usually foresee suicide. One hundred patients with a PS were investigated taking into consideration all specific risk factors. Three stages of PS were outlined: psychic charging, marginal situation (Grenze-Situation) and psychic discharge. Interpretation of PS places it at the border between the clinical psychiatric fields and the ontological problems of humanity and leads to the understanding not only of the morbid psychic phenomenon in general and of the suicide in particular, but also to the major reasons of the human being who is trapped critical circumstances.