Edwin S. Shneidman

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Edwin S. Shneidman

Psychology

#256

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#371

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#174

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According to Wikipedia, Edwin S. Shneidman was an American clinical psychologist, suicidologist and thanatologist. Together with Norman Farberow and Robert Litman, in 1958, he founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center where the men were instrumental in researching suicide and developing a crisis center and treatments to prevent deaths.

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Edwin S. Shneidman's Published Works

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Suicide as psychache. (1993) (449)
Suicide as psychache : a clinical approach to self-destructive behavior (1993) (386)
“CLUES TO SUICIDE.” (1956) (375)
Definition of Suicide (1977) (374)
The Suicidal Mind (1996) (302)
The psychological autopsy. (1994) (253)
The cry for help (1961) (234)
Commentary: Suicide as Psychache (1993) (207)
Review of Vineland Social Maturity Scale. (1956) (170)
Perspectives on suicidology. Further reflections on suicide and psychache. (1998) (158)
Investigations of Equivocal Suicides (1963) (151)
Deaths of Man (1973) (115)
The psychological pain assessment scale. (1999) (106)
Congruencies among interpretations of psychological test and anamnestic data. (1959) (103)
Death: Current Perspectives (1977) (97)
CASE HISTORY AND HOSPITALIZATION FACTORS IN SUICIDES OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL PATIENTS (1966) (89)
Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20th-Century Suicidology (2001) (88)
The Psychology of Suicide (1976) (86)
A psychological approach to suicide. (1987) (85)
Voices of Death (1980) (76)
On the nature of suicide (1971) (74)
On the Nature of Suicide. (1970) (72)
TRANQUILIZERS AND SUICIDE IN THE SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENT. (1964) (71)
Suicide, lethality, and the psychological autopsy. (1969) (68)
Some comparisons between genuine and simulated suicide notes in terms of Mowrer's concepts of discomfort and relief. (1957) (64)
How I read. (2005) (63)
Thematic Test Analysis (1951) (60)
Orientations toward death: A vital aspect of the study of lives. (1963) (57)
Essays in Self Destruction (1967) (55)
Aphorisms of suicide and some implications for psychotherapy. (1984) (51)
SUICIDE-PREVENTION TELEPHONE SERVICE. (1965) (50)
Criteria for a good death. (2007) (50)
Perturbation and Lethality as Precursors of Suicide in a Gifted Group (1971) (49)
Suicidology : contemporary developments (1977) (48)
Suicide among general medical and surgical hospital patients with malignant neoplasms. (1963) (44)
Suicide thoughts and reflections, 1960-1980. (1981) (41)
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind (2004) (40)
The Morality and Rationality of Suicide (1976) (39)
Suicide notes reconsidered. (1973) (36)
Perturbation and lethality: A psychological approach to assessment and intervention. (1999) (35)
What do suicides have in common? Summary of the psychological approach. (1992) (33)
The Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center. (1961) (31)
SUICIDE, SLEEP, AND DEATH: SOME POSSIBLE INTERRELATIONS AMONG CESSATION, INTERRUPTION, AND CONTINUATION PHENOMENA. (1964) (30)
Anodyne Psychotherapy for Suicide: A Psychological View of Suicide (2018) (29)
Self-Mutilation and Suicide (1976) (26)
Current Developments in the Study of Suicidal Thinking (1976) (26)
Clues to suicide, reconsidered. (1994) (25)
A possible classification of suicidal acts based on Murray's need system. (1980) (25)
Some controversies in suicidology: toward a mentalistic discipline. (1993) (25)
Suicidology and the university: a founder's reflections at 80. (2001) (25)
Attempted, threatened, and completed suicide. (1955) (23)
THE LOS ANGELES SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTER: A DEMONSTRATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH FEASIBILITIES. (1965) (23)
A Socio-Psychological Investigation of Suicide (1960) (22)
Aspects of depression (1969) (21)
Followup of neuropsychiatric patients in suicide observation status. (1966) (20)
Lives and deaths : selections from the works of Edwin S. Shneidman (1999) (20)
The Commonalities of Suicide across the Life Span (1990) (20)
Beyond Crisis Intervention (1976) (19)
Suicide Among the Gifted (1976) (19)
The role of psychotherapy in the treatment of suicidal persons. On the deromanticization of death. (1971) (18)
The Demographic Epidemiology of Suicide (1976) (17)
A Psychologic Theory of Suicide (1976) (17)
Suicide--evaluation and treatment of suicidal risk among schizophrenic patients in psychiatric hospitals. (1962) (17)
Multiple MMPI Profiles of Suicidal Persons (1967) (17)
The validity of MMPI interpretations. (1954) (16)
Some reflections of a founder. (1988) (16)
The suicide prevention center (1966) (16)
Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention (1976) (16)
TAT heroes of suicidal and non-suicidal subjects. (1958) (15)
Suicide as the Preferred Way of Death (1976) (15)
Suicide prevention around the clock. (1966) (15)
The make-a-picture-story (maps) projective personality test; a preliminary report. (1947) (14)
The Psychology of Suicide: A Clinician's Guide to Evaluation and Treatment (1977) (14)
Suicidology : essays in honor of Edwin S. Shneidman (1993) (13)
Rational suicide and psychiatric disorders. (1992) (13)
The management of the presuicidal, suicidal, and postsuicidal patient. (1971) (13)
The Indian summer of life. A preliminary study of septuagenarians. (1989) (13)
The validity of thematic projective technique interpretations. (1955) (12)
United States Suicide Rates, 1933-1968: An Analysis of Some Trends (1976) (12)
Black Suicide in New Orleans (1976) (12)
Suicide thoughts and reflections, 1960-1980 : a special issue of Suicide and life-threatening behavior (1981) (11)
A bibliography of suicide notes: 1856-1979. (1979) (11)
The suicidal logic of Cesare Pavese. (1982) (11)
Aspects of the Dying Process (1977) (9)
The Guilford-Shneidman-Zimmerman interest survey. (1949) (9)
Suggestions for the Delineation of Validational Studies (1959) (8)
On "therefore I must kill myself". (1982) (8)
The role of nonprofessional volunteers in a Suicide Prevention Center (1968) (8)
Reasoning Patterns in Suicide Notes (1976) (8)
SOME REFLECTIONS ON DEATH AND SUICIDE* (1965) (8)
The Recent Decline of Suicide in Britain: The Role of the Samaritan Suicide Prevention Movement (1976) (8)
Lethality Factors and the Suicide Attempt (1976) (8)
Clinical Thanatology and Psychotherapy: Some Reflections on Caring for the Dying Person (1980) (7)
Some psychological reflections on the death of Malcolm Melville. (1976) (7)
An Overview of Suicide (1976) (6)
Some Thoughts About Psychotherapy with Suicidal Patients (2004) (6)
Development and Validation of Scales for Estimation of Suicide Risk (1976) (6)
Endeavors in Psychology. Selections from the Personology of Henry A. Murray. New York (Harper and Row) 1981. (1981) (6)
Schizophrenia and the MAPS test: a study of certain formal psycho-social aspects of fantasy production in schizophrenia as revealed by performance on the Make A Picture Story (MAPS) test. (1948) (6)
Can a Young Person Write His Own Obituary (1972) (5)
PREVENTING SUICIDE. (1965) (5)
Some relationships among thematic projective tests of various degrees of structuredness and behavior in a group situation. (1958) (5)
Some comparisons among the four picture test, thematic apperception test, and make a picture story test. (1949) (5)
Psychodrama and the Make a Picture Story (MAPS) Test (1947) (5)
Some thoughts on grief and mourning. (1985) (5)
Personality and "success" among a selected group of lawyers. (1984) (4)
Pioneer in Suicidology. (1964) (4)
Ten commonalities of suicide and their implications for response. (1986) (4)
"Suicide" and "Suicidology": A Brief Etymological Note (1971) (4)
MAPS of the Harvard Yard. (1986) (4)
Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996): Obituary. (1998) (4)
On abolishing "death": an etymological note. (1983) (3)
The case of Jay: interpretations and discussion. (1952) (3)
Suicide on My Mind, "Britannica" on My Table (2016) (3)
Risk writing: a special note about Cesare Pavese and Joseph Conrad. (1979) (3)
The case of Jay; psychological test and anamnestic data. (1952) (3)
Death and the college student: A collection of brief essays on death and suicide by Harvard youth (1972) (2)
Suicide Notes Reconsidered †. (1976) (2)
Suicide Prevention: The Hospital's Role (1968) (2)
Orientation toward cessation: a reexamination of current modes of death. (1968) (2)
Aspects of the Personological System of Henry A. Murray (1982) (2)
Prediction of suicide revisited: a brief methodological note. (2005) (2)
Projections on a triptych: or a hagiology for our time. (1962) (1)
Ideas From My Undergraduate Years: An Autobiographical Fragment (2004) (1)
The Case of El: Psychological Test Data (1961) (1)
A method for educing the present correlates of perception; an introduction to the method of successive covariation. (1957) (1)
Legal Views of Suicide (1976) (1)
A Genuine Classic in Suicidology. (1980) (1)
The logic of E1: a psycho-logical approach to the analysis of test data. (1961) (1)
“Suicide” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1777–1997 (1998) (1)
Suicide--the problem and its magnitude. (1961) (1)
Los Angeles suicide prevention center. (1961) (1)
Benemorticians at Work. (1970) (1)
Introduction to the supplement (1984) (0)
TAT Newsletter. (1951) (0)
A Look into the Dark. (1963) (0)
A short method of scoring the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. (1946) (0)
24. Preventing Suicide (1977) (0)
My visit with Christiana Morgan (2001) (0)
SUICIDE AMONG GENERAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS. (1964) (0)
Psychodrama and the make a picture story test. (1947) (0)
THE TAT newsletter. (1953) (0)
SOME REFLECTIONS ON PERSONALITY EXPLORERS, 1938-1963. (1964) (0)
Opening Remarks: Plenary Session 3, Approaches in Prevention of Suicide and Treatment of Depression (1983) (0)
Samuel Smith, M.D.: First American Professor of Psychiatry (1994) (0)
Information Form Useful in Vocational Counseling (1946) (0)
Some reflections on death and suicide. (1965) (0)
Critical Reviews of Recent Books (1953) (0)
A thanatological masterpiece. (2005) (0)
The best psychological book on suicide. (1998) (0)
Growing Up Dead: Student Suicide (1976) (0)
IN MEMORIAM Mortimer M. Meyer 1909-1984 (1984) (0)
Conversation about Suicide. (1959) (0)
The Volunteer Suicidologist: Current Status and Future Prospects (1976) (0)
Letter to the Editor: Some Reflections on Claggart's Death and on Malcolm's Suicide (2006) (0)
Book ReviewLifelines: Clinical perspectives on suicide (1983) (0)
Book ReviewNew Perspectives in Schizophrenia (1986) (0)
Dying, Denying, and Willing the Obligatory (1987) (0)
Deaths of Man@@@Death and Eastern Thought (1976) (0)
Suicidal Thoughts: Essays on Self-Determined Death (2008) (0)
TAT newsletter. (1952) (0)

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