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A Possible Classification of Suicidal Acts Based on Murray's Need System
Author(s) -
Shneidman Edwin S.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1980.tb00777.x
Subject(s) - explication , variety (cybernetics) , psychology , principal (computer security) , personality , social psychology , epistemology , computer science , computer security , artificial intelligence , philosophy
Recently, Baechler (in his book Suicides ) stated that the central question for suicidological investigation was: “What kind of people seek what solutions to what problems by means of suicide?” It can be argued that the principal problems of human beings relate to the frustration of their satisfaction of a variety of psychological needs. Thus, a full accounting of human needs might furnish a psychologically meaningful basis for a better understanding of suicidal events. Happily, such an explication already exists (in Henry Murray's Explorations in Personality) . A classification of suicidal acts based on Murray's need system is proposed. A brief example is given.