Resource Tag: SUICIDOLOGISTS

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The reviewer reviews the book “Lives and Deaths: Selections from the Works of Edwin S. Schneidman” edited by A Leenaars, which takes, claims the reviewer, a substantial step in the direction of defining its subject. The review highlights the contributions of Schneidman to the field of suicidology, & the contriubtions of the editor to making […]

This book has 13 chapters each of which is divided into 3 parts: the first is an essay which reviews a specific book; the second is a reproduction of the title page & table of contents of the reviewed book; & the third consists of a few pages from the original text. The books included […]

This chapter provides an overview of the most significant developments of the past 5 years in the United States related to the dying process. Because of the significant controversy associated with this issue, the emphasis is placed on situations involving the possibility of physician-assisted death. In order to best convey the trends, the chapter is […]

In this article, Shneidman shares some aspects of his private intellectual history, specifically as they relate to his half-century career as a suicidologist. Shneidman attributes his success to a happy combination of chance & a prepared mind, a concept which originated with Louis Pasteur.

Durkheim is generally regarded as the founder of the scientific study of suicide. However, even a cursory review of 18th- & 19th-century literature reveals an increasingly sophisticated scientific approach to suicide, culminating in the encyclopedic research of Morselli in 1879 & the critical review of Tuke in 1892, works that lose nothing in comparison with […]

2400 years have passed since the occurrence in Athens, Greece of one of the most famous suicides recorded in human history. This autobiographical essay provides a montage on the history of suicide, with snippets from the final hours of Socrates, as described by Plato. Suicide in contemporary Japanese culture is also explored briefly, with reference […]

This article is an obituary for Dr. Michael Kelleher who died in 1998. Among other things, Dr. Kelleher helped to establish a Suicide Research Foundation in Ireland.

A paradigm for analyzing suicide prevention by means of a coding frame & interpreting findings by means of theoretical models of prevention was elaborated. The analysis was based on empirical data consisting of definitions of prevention given by 34 psychologists participating in the national suicide prevention project in Finland. The study demonstrates that suicide prevention […]

This pamphlet discusses the activities of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in research, education, bereavement support & public policy.

This study explored whether 6 suicidologists could judge the sex & age of suicide victims who had left notes. 6 reviewers were given 40 suicide notes from Germany. They were told that 20 were from women & 20 were from men, but they were not given an age distribution. Notes were edited to remove clues […]

In this editorial, Goldney, the president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) describes the creation of the Adelaide Declaration on Suicide Prevention. This declaration is a brief statement meant to convey the importance of suicide & its consequences worldwide. In this declaration the World Health Organization’s 6 basic steps for suicide prevention are […]

The authors studied whether there is a relationship between the existence of religious sanctions & aggregate national suicide rates. It was discovered that countries with religious sanctions were less likely to report rates of suicide to th e World Health Organization. Average reported rates for countries with sanctions are lower than those for countries without […]

The author discusses the contribution of Durkheim’s theory to the field of suicidology & its impact on Austrailan suicidology in particular.

This presentation discussed the career of Dr. Norman Farberow and his contributions to suicidology.

In this article the author raises questions about the euthanasia debate & offers his thoughts from the perspective of a suicidologist. He provides a working definition of suicide from a psychological perspective & then discusses the pros & cons of suicide intervention. He focuses on the terminally ill & presents the views in The Netherlands […]