Edwin S. Shneidman

Clues to suicide

From the combination of knowledge and actions, someone can improve their skill and ability. It will lead them to live and work much better. This is why, the students, workers, or even employers should have reading habit for books. Any book will give certain knowledge to take all benefits. This is what this clues to suicide tells you. It will add more knowledge of you to life and work better. Try it and prove it.

Anodyne Psychotherapy for Suicide: A Psychological View of Suicide

This paper presents a set of propositions about anodynic psychotherapy for suicidal persons which itself focuses on certain psychological needs which have been uniquely frustrated so as to cause dangerously heightened psychological pain, or psychache, in that individual’s mind.

The Commonalities of Suicide across the Life Span

To be a pristine suicidologist, one may have to be a radical mentalist. In other words—given the obvious (and perhaps banal) fact that there are biological structures and physiological concomitants—suicide is an act of volition and frustrated psychological needs, and that the very core of suicide always relates to overwhelming psychological pain.

My visit with Christiana Morgan

This brief memoir reports a freighted conversation between the author and Christiana Morgan-Henry A. Murrays longtime mystical companion-in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1961. The principal topic was her idea, called the creative paranoid hypothesis, that people who have special pressures (such as the truly gifted, or the Jewish people as a whole) are more apt to make meaningful artistic or intellectual contributions. She was troubled by the burden of having to hold onto her belief in her own unrecognized potential greatness and wanted to explore how it might tie to Jewishness, of which the author was a convenient living example. Over and above the content of the talk, what was most memorable were the illuminating insights into the special relationship between Murray and Morgan, specifically how an extraordinary woman can influence a great man and subtly change the course of intellectual history.