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Edwin S. Shneidman

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Edwin S. Shneidman


Born
in York, PA, The United States
May 01, 1918

Died
May 15, 2009


Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman (born c. 1918) is a noted American suicidologist/thanatologist. He with co-workers from the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center provided a major stimulus to research into suicide and its prevention. He was the founder of the American Association of Suicidology and of the principal United States journal for suicide studies, Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior. He is Professor of Thanatology Emeritus at the University of California and lives in Los Angeles.

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The Suicidal Mind

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Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

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Voices of Death

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Suicide as Psychache: A Cli...

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Comprehending Suicide: Land...

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A Commonsense Book of Death...

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Definition of Suicide

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Deaths of Man

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Clues to Suicide

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Essays in Self Destruction

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“There are many pointless deaths, but there can never be a needless suicide.”
Edwin S. Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior

“There’s no spirit or soul. I will be dead. Get that through your thick head. I’ll be dead. And I live, in quotation marks, in my children, in my DNA, in my books, in my reputation. It’s as simple as that.”
Edwin Shneidman

“Each suicidal drama occurs in the mind of a unique individual.”
Edwin S. Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior

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