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
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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
Quote of the Day 16 Nov 2015
Individuals have different thresholds for enduring or tolerating pain; thus the individual’s decision not to bear the pain-the threshold for enduring it-is also directly relevant. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 15 Nov 2015
From the view of psychological factors in suicide, the key element in every case is psychological pain; psychache. All affective states (such as rage, hostility, depression, shame, guilt, affectiveness, hopelessness, etc.) are relevant to suicide only as they relate to unbearable psychological pain. If, for example, feeling guilty or depressed or having a bad conscience or an overwhelming unconscious rage makes one suicidal, it does so because it is painful. No psychache, no suicide. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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