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History without Psychiatric insight is formless. Herodotus, the father of all historians, characterized figures, from the

most ancient to the contemporary by

their likes and dislikes, by their loves and hates, their ambitions, frustrations, and their motives. 

The Psychiatric Autopsy takes into account a multitude of factors, in regard to toxicology, pharmacology, anatomical

pathology, and the clinical events in the life of the deceased. The Psychiatric Autopsy is an analysis of the deceased person, with full consideration of their genetic and environmental background, personal experiences, documents

left behind, oral history, by relatives, friends, acquaintances, and witnesses.

The psychiatric autopsy could be best defined as the postmortem examination

of all the remains of the deceased, which permit insight and knowledge of

their personality structure, behaviour patterns and, most importantly, the

events leading to their demise. 

Executors, administrators, or people with legal power over the estate. 

People who helped with care or payment before death, unless it goes against a known wish of the deceased. 

Coroners, medical examiners, other lawful authorities, funeral directors, and organ donation groups. 

Psychiatria Post Mortem. Post Mortem, Latin for after death. Post Mortem Psychiatry. The application of Psychiatry after death.