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Shneidman, Edwin S. was born on May 13, 1918 in York, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Louis and and Manya (Zukin) Shneidman.
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(Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-destructive Behavior) Author: Edwin Shneidman published on (April, 1995)
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Thematic Test Analysis
(First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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SUICIDE AS PSYCHACHE A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior
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The Suicidal Mind
(Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming t...)
Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming the lives of ordinary people and celebrities alike. It is now the third leading cause of death for fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in the United States, raising alarms across the nation about the rising tide of hopelessness seen in our young people. It is a taboo subtext to our successes and our happiness, a dark issue that is often euphemized, avoided, and little understood. In our century, psychology and psychiatry alike have attempted to understand, prevent, and medicalize these phenomena. But they have failed, argues Dr. Edwin Shneidman, because they have lost sight of the plain language, the ordinary everyday words, the pain and frustrated psychological needs of the suicidal individual. In The Suicidal Mind, Dr. Shneidman has written a groundbreaking work for every person who has ever thought about suicide or knows anybody who has contemplated it. The book brims with insight into the suicidal impulse and with helpful suggestions on how to counteract it. Shneidman presents a bold and simple premise: the main cause of suicide is psychological pain or "psychache." Thus the key to preventing suicide is not so much the study of the structure of the brain, or the study of social statistics, or the study of mental diseases, as it is the direct study of human emotions. To treat a suicidal individual, we need to identify, address, and reduce the individual's psychache. Shneidman shares with the reader his knowledge, both as a clinician and researcher, of the psychological drama that plays itself out in the suicidal mind through the exploration of three moving case studies. We meet Ariel, who set herself on fire; Beatrice, who cut herself with the intent to die; and Castro, a young man who meant to shoot his brains out but survived, horribly disfigured. These cases are presented in the person's own words to reveal the details of the suicidal drama, to show that the purpose of suicide is to seek a solution, to illustrate the pain at the core of suicide, and to isolate the common stressor in suicide: frustrated psychological needs. Throughout, Shneidman offers practical, explicit maneuvers to assist in treating a suicidal individual--steps that can be taken by concerned friends or family and professionals alike. Suicide is an exclusively human response to extreme psychological pain, a lonely and desperate solution for the sufferer who can no longer see any alternatives. In this landmark and elegantly written book, Shneidman provides the language, not only for understanding the suicidal mind, but for understanding ourselves. Anyone who has ever considered suicide, or knows someone who has, will find here a wealth of insights to help understand and to prevent suicide.
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Endeavors in Psychology: Selections from the Personology of Henry A. Murray
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Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20th-Century Suicidology
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An examination of the most thought-provoking works on suicide of the 20th century. It includes historical, literary, sociological, biological, psychiatric and psychological, survivor and helping points of view.
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Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind By Shneidman, Edwin S ( Author ) Hardcover 2004
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Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20Th-Century Suicidology by Shneidman, Edwin S. (2001) Hardcover
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Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind
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Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psychological analysis of a suicidal mind. In this poignant scientific study, Edwin S. Shneidman, a founder of the field of suicidology, assembles an extraordinary cast of eight renowned experts to analyze the suicidal materials, including a ten-page suicide note, given to him by a distraught mother looking for insights into her son's tragic death. The psychological autopsy centers on the interviews conducted by Shneidman with Arthur's mother, father, brother, sister, best friend, ex-wife, girlfriend, psychotherapist, and attending physician. To gain some understanding of this man's intense psychological pain and to examine what may have been done to save his tortured life, Shneidman approached the top suicide experts in the country to analyze the note and interviews: Morton Silverman, Robert E. Litman, Jerome Motto, Norman L. Farberow, John T. Maltsberger, Ronald Maris, David Rudd, and Avery D. Weisman. Each of the eight experts offers a unique perspective on Arthur's tragic fate, and the sum of their conclusions constitutes an extraordinary psychological autopsy. This book is the first of its kind and a remarkable contribution to the study of suicide. Mental health professionals, students of human nature, and persons whose lives have been touched by this merciless topic will be mesmerized and enlightened by this unique volume. An epistemological tour de force, it will speak to anyone who is concerned with human self-destruction.
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By Edwin S. Shneidman - Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20th Century Suicidology: 1st (first) Edition
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Death: Current perspectives
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One of the most impressive facts about death today is how much and in how many different ways various aspects of death and dying are undergoing dramatic changes. Edwin Shneidman has compiled this volume to give the reader a broad-ranging view of current trends in thanatology. The result is a remarkable compendium of pertinent insights upon which to build an understanding of death in our time - death as it relates to our comprehension of ourselves and our fellow beings. Edwin S. Shneidman, Ph.D., was Professor of Thanatology (the study of death and its surrounding circumstances, as in forensic medicine) and Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Life-Threatening Behavior at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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A Commonsense Book of Death: Reflections at Ninety of a Lifelong Thanatologist by Shneidman, Edwin (2008) Hardcover
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Death Current Perspectives
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(Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20th-Century Suicidology) Author: Edwin Shneidman published on (May, 2001)
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Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior
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"This is an important book that no suicidologist should be without. In it, the author, Edwin S. Shneidman, brings together work he undertook and completed between 1971 and 1993. This work includes an empirical study, some single case studies, some theoretical think pieces, and some suggestions for psychotherapy. In this volume, Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior, Shneidman introduces the concept of psychache, adding to the existing vocabulary on suicide to which he has contributed so generously. Shneidman defines psychache as the hurt, anguish, soreness, aching, psychological pain in the mind. Suicide occurs, he says, when the person experiencing the psychache deems the pain unbearable, suicide having to do with differences in individual thresholds for enduring psychological pain. Other concepts that bear Shneidman's imprint include suicidology, psychological autopsy, postvention, subintentional death, and postself. In the language of Suicide as Psychache, the growing numbers of people committing suicide in the United States give testimony to the growing prevalence of psychache in the U. S. population. Like all of Shneidman's work, this book goes well beyond its primary intent in that it is much more than a book about suicide. It is a theoretical book about the psychology of human behavior as reflected in suicide and about creative ways of investigating and responding to suicide phenomena. The book is divided into four parts: Foundations, Analyses, Response, and Follow-Up. This review, being a review, cannot possibly do justice to Shneidman's Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior. It contains so many rich insights coupled with interesting literary references that help to enlarge readers' understanding and knowledge that persons are advised to read the book for themselves. By bringing together his earlier work and building on it, Shneidman allows rea
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Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind Hardcover - February 26, 2004
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A Commonsense Book of Death: Reflections at Ninety of a Lifelong Thanatologist
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Thirty-five years ago, in 1973, the author, then in the middle of life, age 55, wrote Deaths of Man, a set of essays about death. The book was nominated for the National Book Award in Science and recently the American Psychological Association selected it as a "classic" and provided a retrospective review. Now, in 2008 the author, age 90, revisits some of his original concepts with the experience of thirty-five years of clinical perspective and personal travail and what it is to face his own death. This book touches on provocative topics such as some proposed criteria for a good death, a variety of ways in which we seek to survive our own death in our postself; the world-wide coarsening of death, and a chapter on suicide in which the author discusses his theory that the black heart of suicide is psychological pain. The book contains ideas like subintentioned death in which the individual, unbeknownst to the self, plays an indirect, unconscious role in bringing the death date forward. Perhaps the most dramatic feature of this new revision is an essay by the author's psychotherapist (about what he was like as patient discussing his own death). It is an essay which the author will not have seen.
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Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior by Shneidman, Edwin (1995) Paperback
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The Psychology of Suicide
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This revised edition is designed for mental health practitioners, all of whom must at one time or another deal with a crisis of suicide. It argues that in practically every case, suicide need not occur. unnecessary.
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The Suicidal Mind 1st edition by Shneidman, Edwin S. (1996) Hardcover
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Suicide Thoughts and Reflections--1960-1980
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Essays in Self Destruction
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Essays, Literary Studies, Philosophy
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- Psychology of Suicide:/The
- The Suicidal Mind by Edwin Shneidman (1997-05-01)
- The Psychology of Suicide by Edwin S. Shneidman (1984-04-03) (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Endeavors in Psychology: Selections from the Personology of Henry A. Murray by H. A. Murray (1981-03-01)
- Voices of Death: Letters and Diaries of People Facing Death (Kodansha Globe Series) by Edwin S. Shneidman (1996-02-01)
- Definition of Suicide by Edwin Shneidman (2015-07-14)
- Definition of Suicide (How can one enrich the time remaining in the life of a te...)
- The Psychology of Suicide: A Clinician's Guide to Evaluation and Treatment by Edwin S. Shneidman (1977-07-07) (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior by Edwin Shneidman (1995-04-01)
- Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind by Edwin S. Shneidman (2004-02-26)
- Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior by Edwin Shneidman (1995-04-01) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Voices of Death: Letters and Diaries of People Facing Death--Comfort and Guidance for Us All (Kodansha Globe) (International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade ...)
- The Suicidal Mind by Edwin S. Shneidman (1996-05-23)
Edwin S. Shneidman
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Edwin S. Shneidman, American Psychologist, educator, thanatologist, suicidologist. Diplomate: American Board Examiners Professional Psychology (past vice president). Recipient Harold M. Hildreth award Psychologists in Public Service, 1966; Louis I. Dublin award American Association Suicidology, 1969.
Education
AB, University of California at Los Angeles, 1938; Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1940; Master of Science, University of Southern California, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 1948.
Career
Clinical psychologist, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, 1947-1950; chief research, Veterans Administration Center, 1950-1953; co-director, Central Research Unit for Study Unpredicted Deaths, 1953-1958; company-director, Suicide Prevention Center, Los Angeles, 1958-1966; chief Center Studies Suicide Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1966-1969; visiting professor, Harvard University, 1969; fellow, Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1969-1970; clinical associate, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1969; clinical associate, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, 1978; professor medical psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970-1975; professor thanatology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975-1988; emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1988. Visiting professor Ben Gurion University of Negev, Beersheva, 1983.
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Definition of Suicide
(How can one enrich the time remaining in the life of a te...)
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Voices of Death: Letters and Diaries of People Facing Death--Comfort and Guidance for Us All (Kodansha Globe)
(International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade ...)
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Death: Current perspectives
(One of the most impressive facts about death today is how...)
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The Psychology of Suicide
(This revised edition is designed for mental health practi...)
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A Commonsense Book of Death: Reflections at Ninety of a Lifelong Thanatologist
(Thirty-five years ago, in 1973, the author, then in the m...)
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The Suicidal Mind
(Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming t...)
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Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind
(Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psycho...)
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Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20th-Century Suicidology
(An examination of the most thought-provoking works on sui...)
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Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior
("This is an important book that no suicidologist should b...)
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Essays in Self Destruction
(Essays, Literary Studies, Philosophy)
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Suicide Thoughts and Reflections--1960-1980
(NY 1981 Human Sciences Press. 8vo.,172pp, hardcover. Good...)
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Thematic Test Analysis
(First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
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The Psychology of Suicide by Edwin S. Shneidman (1984-04-03)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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The Psychology of Suicide: A Clinician's Guide to Evaluation and Treatment by Edwin S. Shneidman (1977-07-07)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior by Edwin Shneidman (1995-04-01)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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Endeavors in Psychology: Selections from the Personology of Henry A. Murray
(Book: Psychology)
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A Commonsense Book of Death: Reflections at Ninety of a Lifelong Thanatologist by Shneidman, Edwin (2008) Hardcover
(First Edition)
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Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior by Shneidman, Edwin (1995) Paperback
(First Edition)
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Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind by Shneidman, Edwin S. (2004) Hardcover
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- (Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-destructive Behavior) Author: Edwin Shneidman published on (April, 1995)
- Psychology of Suicide:/The
- The Suicidal Mind by Edwin Shneidman (1997-05-01)
- SUICIDE AS PSYCHACHE A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior
- Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind By Shneidman, Edwin S ( Author ) Hardcover 2004
- Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20Th-Century Suicidology by Shneidman, Edwin S. (2001) Hardcover
- Endeavors in Psychology: Selections from the Personology of Henry A. Murray by H. A. Murray (1981-03-01)
- Voices of Death: Letters and Diaries of People Facing Death (Kodansha Globe Series) by Edwin S. Shneidman (1996-02-01)
- By Edwin S. Shneidman - Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20th Century Suicidology: 1st (first) Edition
- Definition of Suicide by Edwin Shneidman (2015-07-14)
- Death Current Perspectives
- (Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20th-Century Suicidology) Author: Edwin Shneidman published on (May, 2001)
- Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior by Edwin Shneidman (1995-04-01)
- Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind Hardcover - February 26, 2004
- Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind by Edwin S. Shneidman (2004-02-26)
- The Suicidal Mind 1st edition by Shneidman, Edwin S. (1996) Hardcover
- The Suicidal Mind by Edwin S. Shneidman (1996-05-23)
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Definition of Suicide
Membership
Served to captain United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945. Member American Association Suicidology (founder, past president), American Psychological Association (past division president, Distinguished Professional Contribution to Public Service award 1987, Henry A. Murray award 1997), Melville Society.
Connections
Married Jeanne E. Keplinger, October 1, 1944 (deceased 2001). Children: David William, Jonathan Aaron, Paul Samuel, Robert James.
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American