Quote of the Day 14 Nov 2015

The most evident fact about suicidology and suicidal events is that they are multidimensional, multifaceted, multidisciplinary–containing as they do, concomitant biological, sociological, psychological (interpersonal and intrapsychic), epidemiological, and philosophic elements. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache

Quote of the Day 13 Nov 2015

The explanation of suicide in humankind is the same as the explanation of the suicide of any particular human. Suicidology, the study of human suicide, and a psychological autopsy of a particular case are identical in their goals: to nibble at the puzzle of human self-destruction. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache

Quote of the Day 12 Nov 2015

Suicide occurs when the psychache is deemed by that person to be unbearable.  This means that suicide also has to do with different individual thresholds for enduring psychological pain. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache 

Quote of the Day 11 Nov 2015

Nietzsche said that “the thought of is a great consolation; by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night”. I can say that the topic of suicide has been a great preoccupation that has kept me up more nights than I care to remember.  Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache