군자살자의 자살원인에 대한 효과적인 심리부검 적용 방안

Abstract

Many scholars see suicide as a societal issue not limited to individual sphere, and continue the effort to prevent it. Many countries including the United States, Japan, and Finland have adopted psychological autopsyin order to find out the substantial truth regarding the motive of suicide. In Korea, the importance of psychological autopsy has recently been recognized and some groups have adopted the technique under theassistance of the Health and Welfare Ministry. In the military, psychological autopsy is conducted with advice from private organizations when the bereaved family request psychological autopsy be performed, or when it is needed in terms of investigative procedure. This study focuses on young soldiers and considered ‘euphemism of the terminology psychological autopsy’, ‘establishment of an organization in charge for stigation’,‘development of military psychological autopsy standardization tool’, and ‘psychological recovery system for the bereaved family and fellow soldiers’ as a method to efctively introduce psychological autopsy in the military. The paper also looks into the characteristics of suicides in the military, the psychological influence of suicide on the bereaved family and fellow soldiers, and the current conditions surrounding the research on psychological autopsy in and out of the country.