Suicide should not be misunderstood as hostility directed toward the introjected love object; but rather suicide is better understood as anguish over the plight of the writhing self. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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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
Quote of the Day 30-Oct-2015
There is nothing intrinsically wrong (or aberrant) in thinking about suicide; it is abnormal only when on thinks that suicide is the only solution. –Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 29 Oct 2015
The primary thought disorder in suicide is that of a pathological narrowing of the mind’s focus, called constriction, which takes the form of seeing only two choices: either something painfully unsatisfactory or cessation. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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