Suicide is not only a reaction to unmet needs, but also the need for important psychological freedoms, such as freedom from pain, freedom from guilt, freedom from shame, freedom from rejection, and aloneness. When these freedoms are traumatically violated, an individual who realistically lacks “a court of appeal” may take matters into his own hands and remove his consciousness from the painful scene. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Category: mental illness
Quote of the Day 6 Nov 2015
As a psychological disorder suicide relates specifically to unmet or frustrated needs, such as the need for acceptance, safety, and succorance. There are many pointless deaths, but never a needless suicide. Every suicide act is addressed to certain unfulfilled needs. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 4 Nov 2015
The central issue in suicide is not death or killing; it is rather, the stopping of the consciousness of unbearable pain which-unfortunately-by its nature entails the stopping of life. -Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 1 Nov 2015
Wilhelm Stekel and the other early psychoanalysts (1910 and after) overstated the case when they pro claimed that no one [dies by] suicide who has not wished the death of another; that suicide is basically hostility directed toward the image of a loved one incorporated within the psyche. Not only is this explanation often off the mark, but even more, the individual who [dies by] suicide usually does not even wish to kill himself.
Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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