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The suicide of a patient in ongoing treatment has been and continues to be among the most traumatic events in the professional life of a psychiatrist. Despite the occasional paper urging more attention to this area, systematic examinations of the prevalence of psychiatrists’ reactions to patient deaths from suicide, the specific reactions that are typically seen, predictors of these responses, and recommendations for optimal coping mechanisms in these situations continue to be remarkably sparse in the psychiatric literature.
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