PSYCH-230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edwin S. Shneidman, Suicidal Ideation, Rugby Football League
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The perturbation of mind that he posits as a key feature in a person who commits suicide is nota mental illness. Suicide is a conscious effort to seek a solution to a problem that is causing intense and intolerable psychological suffering and pain (psychache) This solution ends consciousness and unendurable pain. In his view other psych factors like depression are relevant only when they are related to psych ache. Psychache is a more proximal predictor of suicide. Fully mediates the relation between socially prescribed perfectionism and suicidality. Among homeless men: more of a predictor than depressions, hopelessness, or life meaning. Factors implicated in the development of suicidal behaviour: Many consider suicide in general as an individual"s attempt at problem-solving, conducted under considerable stress and marked by consideration of a very narrow range of alternatives, of which self-annihilation appears the most viable.
