Suicide is both a logical and psychological phenomenon. As a logical thought disorder it is fueled by an individual’s emotional turmoil and grounded in his psychological history. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Category: Quotes
Quote of the Day 26 Oct 2015
We can empathize with every person who has died by suicide and yet we should seek to thwart every suicidal plan that has not yet been consummated. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 25-Oct-2015
There are two basic, albeit contradictory, truths about suicide: A) Suicide should never be committed when one is depressed (or disturbed or constricted); and B) almost every suicide committed for reasons that make sense to the person who does it.–Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 24 Oct 2015
The great social debate -really about subintentional deaths– is over the role of the larger society in contributing to poverty, social degradation, and hopelessness–conditions that are clearly about behaviors that bring death to far too many before they need have died. –Edwin Shneidman
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