suicide...

 cut to the chase

emile durkheim said sucide was capable of being plotted statistically and the cause was social anomie.

maybe

however for the individual himself it is an act of desperation

the psychoanalytic theory is quite simple

a person that commits suicide is conflicted because the image of the loving father  and the hated father or the otherwise parent of the same sex has been compromised and ruptured by extreme psychological trauma.

they cannot kill the person who caused it so they kill themselves.

when this is played out in public it has devastating consequences.

here it is in black and white and should be required reading for all those who desire to be in the healing professions.

mental illness in the justice system of new zealand should not be given as some sort of gift for cultural recognition of shamanistic practice but reserved for those that know what they are doing.