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Anatomy of an End

Anatomy of an End 8 Episodes Sep 2, 2026

Anatomy of an End is a podcast about mental health and suicide prevention through the lens of psychological autopsy. Each episode examines the life of someone who died by suicide, looking at relationships, behavioral changes, psychological pressures, warning signs, and missed opportunities. The show aims to make the conversation about suicide serious yet accessible, blending clinical insight with warmth and curiosity. It is hosted by Davis Henry and D. Edward “Dana” Tatum, a licensed clinician and forensic psychological consultant.

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Psychological Autopsy #6: Sarah - No News Is Not Good News Sep 2, 2026 4054 Sarah was 56. Quiet, meticulous, private, and intensely hard on herself, she spent much of her life struggling with anxiety, isolation, and a relentless fear that she was never doing well enough.When she entered a state psychiatric hospital, clinicians described her as a model patient. She caused no trouble. She made no demands. She kept to herself. Eventually, she appeared to be improving.Then sh

Psychological Autopsy #5: Sam - He Looked Better (The Danger After Detox) Aug 22, 2026 3552 Sam was 28. After years of opioid addiction, his family got him into treatment. He completed medical detox. He was clean, coherent, cooperative, and for the first time in years he looked like himself again. Two days later, he died by suicide.Davis Henry and D. Edward “Dana” Tatum use Sam’s psychological autopsy to examine a pattern families and clinicians still miss: looking better is not the same

Psychological Autopsy #4: Mark - Giving It All Away Aug 9, 2026 3565 A 52-year-old man reaches a breaking point within 72 hours of his first arrest. Davis goes in blind as Dana reconstructs the pressure, concealment, and missed signals that came before it.Davis Henry and forensic psychological consultant D. Edward “Dana” Tatum reconstruct a real life to see what depression, addiction, isolation, shame, grief, and the systems around a person look like before a break

Psychological Autopsy #3: Noor - External Reactions, Internal Realities Jul 15, 2026 5262 We build courts and jails to process what people do. They are much worse at understanding what is happening inside someone.At first glance, Noor’s story looks like a criminal file: a 19-year-old woman, stalking charges, threats against a judge, a death in jail. A psychological autopsy starts earlier than the public record.Davis Henry and D. Edward “Dana” Tatum reconstruct the months before that en

Psychological Autopsy #2: William - Between Two Lives Jun 27, 2026 4636 William was a respected corrections clinician and a father. After his death, a second life surfaced that even the people closest to him had not seen.Davis Henry and D. Edward “Dana” Tatum reconstruct the relationships, secrecy, and competing stories that followed. The autopsy cannot settle every question. It can show the pressures and patterns a normal investigation often skips: concealment, doubl

Psychological Autopsy #1 Part 3: Susan – The Final Days Jun 13, 2026 4254 Part 3 of 3. The scene is on the table. The life is on the table. This part looks at the days before Susan’s death: the relationships, decisions, conflicts, and pressure that only become a pattern when you already know how the story ends.Davis Henry and D. Edward “Dana” Tatum cannot answer every question. They can look at what was visible in hindsight, what was misunderstood in the moment, and whe

Psychological Autopsy #1 Part 2: Susan – The Person Jun 13, 2026 2950 Part 2 of 3. Who was Susan before she became the subject of an investigation?Davis Henry and D. Edward “Dana” Tatum leave the scene and look at the life: relationships, struggles, behavior patterns, and how the people who knew her experienced her. A death does not explain a person. This part tries to recover the person first.This episode is for listeners who want the human picture that never fits

Psychological Autopsy #1 Part 1: Susan – The Scene Jun 13, 2026 2874 Part 1 of 3. Before Susan’s life can be reconstructed, the record has to be laid out: the scene, the known facts, the emergency response, and the evidence people argued over for years.Davis Henry and D. Edward “Dana” Tatum start with what was visible from the outside. The psychological autopsy comes after that. This part is about what first responders, investigators, and a community thought they w

Official Trailer May 7, 2026 160 An introduction to Anatomy of an End — a long-form psychological autopsy podcast exploring suicide, stigma, prevention, and human behavior through real forensic case analysis.Hosted by Davis Henry and forensic psychological consultant D. Edward Tatum.Launching June 2026.KEEP UP WITH ANATOMY OF AN ENDListen to every episode, follow us on social media, join the newsletter, Ask Davis & Dana, and

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