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This paper presents a set of propositions about anodynic psychotherapy for suicidal persons which itself focuses on certain psychological needs which have been uniquely frustrated so as to cause dangerously heightened psychological pain, or psychache, in that individual’s mind.
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Much of what follows in this section is taken from Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind (2004).
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Shneidman ES (2005) Anodyne psychotherapy for suicide: a psychological view of suicide. Clinical Neuropsychiatry 2(1):7–12. Reprinted with permission
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Shneidman, E.S. (2018). Anodyne Psychotherapy for Suicide: A Psychological View of Suicide. In: Pompili, M. (eds) Phenomenology of Suicide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47976-7_13
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