Abstract

Suicide is one of the major health problems worldwide and suicide is frequently associated with psychiatric illness. Depression is one of the common psychiatric illness which is associated with suicide. Patients attempt suicide by various methods and genital self-mutilation or phallicide is a very rare method for attempting suicide. Hereby we are reporting a case of 63-year-old male a case of severe depression who attempted suicide by phallicide and who was managed in a multidisciplinary team for managing both psychiatric and surgical emergencies.

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