Psychache

Severe psychological pain
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Shneidman (1993) says that suicide is the consequence of overwhelming, uncontrollable psychological pain called psychache, defined as psychological pain attaining an intolerable intensity.
Suicide--freedom or constraint? How free will works in autolysis
Does psychache mediate the relationship between general distress and suicide ideation?.
MALESTAR PSICOLOGICO COMO MEDIADOR ENTRE LA HOMOFOBIA INTERIORIZADA Y EL RIESGO SUICIDA EN HOMBRES CHILENOS
One of the most poignant contributions to the literature on suicide was Shneidman's (1993) term psychache to refer to "hurt, anguish, soreness, aching, psychological pain in the psyche, the mind.
The Death of the Therapist and the Bereaved Client and Colleague: An Introduction to the Literature
Topic discussed include a brief history of completed suicides, expanding the epidemiological lens from prevalence rates to correlates, suicide trajectory model and psychache, research on the suicidal behavior of students with gifts and talents, the personal experience of students with gifts and talents, toward a model of suicidal behavior for students with gifts and talents, and preventing suicide among students with gifts and talents.
Suicide Among Gifted Children and Adolescents: Understanding the Suicidal Mind, 2nd Edition
Comparing psychache, depression, and hopelessness in their associations with suicidality: A test of Shneidman's theory of suicide.
Sintomas de depresion en hombres
Other contributions from this field include the concept/term, "psychache" coined by Shneidman (65) which refers to the unpleasant state of mind (which may or may not involve mental disorder) which precedes the completion of suicide.
Suicide is not the exclusive domain of medicine
Suicide as psychache. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 181, 145-147.
?Estan los grandes repetidores adictos a los comportamientos suicidas?
Suicidal experiences of meaninglessness have been described as a state of psychache [14], human suffering [15], and emotional pain [16].
Going around in a circle: a Norwegian study of suicidal experiences in old age
The interpretation of the disparities reported here is also informed by a phenomenon in suicide, described as psychache by Shneidman (1993).
Regional suicide disparities in Queensland: temporal measurement and interpretation
Edwin Schneidman also coined the term "psychache." It was a word he used as a label for a kind of unremitting psychological pain.
Waiting around to die
Acknowledge the psychache. Edwin Shneidman, the father of suicidology, coined the term "psychache" for the extreme psychological pain of the suicidal person (2005).
A suicide crisis intervention model with 25 practical strategies for implementation
The psychological domain can best be understood in terms of Shneidman's (1993) concept of "psychache," which refers to intense psychological pain and the perception that death is the only possible form of relief.
Content analysis of suicide notes as a test of the motivational component of the existential-constructivist model of suicide
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