The Search for Help: No One to Turn to (IN: Essays in Self-Destruction, ed. by E S Shneidman)

The author examines the logic used by a suicidal person in coming to the conclusion that he has no one to turn to. Various factors that affect the individual’s reason are denoted mathematically, & the formulation of “hopelessness” is presented in scientific form. 6 Ref. (NBB)