[Suicide: study of events related to patterns of mental functioning of certain subjects at high risk for suicide. Data from the emergency service of a general hospital].

The events implicated during a suicidal crisis reveal different depressive patterns sometimes unknown before the suicide: pathological idealisation, pathology of mourning, suicidal identification, Tellenbach's melancholic personality, non-acceptance of growing old, anaclitic depression produce a large number of serious suicides, often facilitated by alcohol intoxication. The mechanisms of violence which persist after the suicidal act and the imaginary position of the person in relation to death are also important risk factors.