A burnt out person whose whole life was a kind of chronic suicide, a living death, a life without ambition seemingly without purpose–Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Category: psychache
Quote of the day 19 Nov 2015
The remediation (or therapy) of the suicidal state lies in addressing and mollifying the vital frustrated needs. The therapist does well to have this template of psychological needs in mind so that the therapy can be tailor-made for that patient. Often, just a little bit of mollification of the patient’s frustrated needs can change the vital balance sufficiently to save a life. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 18 Nov 2015
There are modal psychological needs with which the person lives and which define the personality and there are vital psychological needs whose frustration cannot be tolerated, which define suicide. Within an individual these two kinds of needs are psychologically consistent with each other, although not necessarily the same as each other. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 17 Nov 2015
In every case, psychological pain is created and fueled by frustrated psychological needs. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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