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Several writers' opinions about what should be included in a comprehensive behavioral analysis conducted after EDA. Clearly an EDA is open to many more biases and distortions than a ‘full’ psychological autopsy. When a death is due to the actions of the edent, the manner is typically either suicide (intentional) or accidental (unintentional) ABSTRACT A psychological autopsy of an year-old male with dual exceptionalities contributes to our understanding of suicide among students with gifts and talents. [1] [2] [3] It was invented SOCOMThe psychological autopsy (PA) is a procedure that assists in the classification of “equivocal deaths”—note that this term is used throughout this article to indicate situations in which the manner of death (e.g., suicide, accident, other) is uncertain or not immediately clear A psychological autopsy (PA) is the reconstruction of events leading to death; ascertainment of the circumstances of the death, including suicidal intent; and an in-depth exploration of other significant risk factors for suicide The psychological autopsy (PA) is a systematic process used in a death investigation to come to an educated conclusion as to the manner of the death when the manner is in question. Using four theories and models of What little experience there is about EDA’s casts grave doubts The evaluator conducting a psychological autopsy should consider carefully the following six concepts during their retrospective investigation: (1) cause, (2) mode, (3) motive, (4) Psychological autopsy in suicidology (or also psychiatric autopsy) is a systematic procedure for evaluating suicidal intention in equivocal cases. Much of the writing on the psychological autopsy is reviewed.