Values and Value Conflict in Self-Destruction: Implications in the Work of C. W. Morris (IN: Essays in Self-Destruction, ed. by E S Shneidman)

The author reviews the elements of Charles Morris’s approach to values & evaluates their implications for the understanding of self-destructive behavior. Whalley found, in a study of SPC clients, that their values did not differ from those of non-suicidals except for the devaluation of their own lives. 28 Ref. (NBB)