Stumpfe K D
MMW Munch Med Wochenschr. 1975 Mar 21;117(12):473-6.
In psychogenic death, the persons finds himself in a seriously distressing situation of which he believes that he has been thrown into this helpless position and that there is no way out. Humans behave passively and die quietly. In suicide, on the other hand, a person ends his life actively. The problem of why, on the one hand, people bring about death actively while in psychogenic death they "let themselves die" is enquired into. In psychogenic death, the difficulties of the emergencies produced by external factors can no longer be coped with mentally: the person wants to live but he cannot go on. In suicide, it seems to the person that the projection of the future, produced by inner factors, is no longer worth living: the person does not want to live, although he could.
在心因性死亡中，个体发现自己处于严重的困境之中，他认为自己陷入了这种无助的境地且无路可走。人们表现得很被动，静静地死去。另一方面，在自杀中，一个人会主动结束自己的生命。于是人们探究为何一方面人们会主动促成死亡，而在心因性死亡中他们却是“听任自己死去”。在心因性死亡中，由外部因素引发的紧急状况所带来的困难已无法通过心理层面加以应对：这个人想活下去，但却无法继续。在自杀中，对个体而言，由内在因素产生的对未来的预期已不再值得活下去：这个人不想活了，尽管他能够活下去。
