Based on a qualitative study with 124 participants we explore what is in ordinary language referred to as 'suicidal feelings'. We identify four interrelated aspects of this experience, which together suggest that 'suicidal feelings' is in fact a 'feeling of being suicidal', an existential feeling. Although each experience is unique in its presentation, it is also the case that people who are suicidal tend to experience a combination of the following: 1) loss of consistency and/ or coherence in their sense of self; 2) a disruption in the reciprocal action between self and world; 3) serious depletion of their mental resources; and 4) a disturbance of embodiment. We then argue that 'the feeling of being suicidal' should be understood as a disr...
This study sought to replicate previous findings of vivid suicide-related imagery in previously suic...
Background: Suicidal thoughts, acts, plans and deaths are considerably more prevalent in people with...
The suicide experience combines despair with the perception of suicide as the last option to alter i...
Based on a qualitative study with 124 participants we explore what is in ordinary language referred ...
Attempted suicide is a risk factor for future suicidal behaviour, but understanding suicidality from...
Attempted suicide is a risk factor for future suicidal behaviour, but understanding suicidality from...
This dissertation examines the idea that suicidal cognitions might exist on a continuum of normal ex...
Both the theoretical models of suicidal process and the current empirical research do not allow us t...
This study sought to replicate previous findings of vivid suicide-related imagery in previously suic...
A suicide attempt is a very significant and usually disturbing event for the person who makes the at...
The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In this ...
Developing and testing theoretical models of suicidal processes is an important step towards designi...
From an evolutionary-psychological perspective, it has been argued that a sense of burdensomeness to...
Clinical observations indicate that suffering and psychic pain, by means of the repertory of languag...
BACKGROUND: Suicidal thoughts, acts, plans and deaths are considerably more prevalent in people with...
This study sought to replicate previous findings of vivid suicide-related imagery in previously suic...
Background: Suicidal thoughts, acts, plans and deaths are considerably more prevalent in people with...
The suicide experience combines despair with the perception of suicide as the last option to alter i...
Based on a qualitative study with 124 participants we explore what is in ordinary language referred ...
Attempted suicide is a risk factor for future suicidal behaviour, but understanding suicidality from...
Attempted suicide is a risk factor for future suicidal behaviour, but understanding suicidality from...
This dissertation examines the idea that suicidal cognitions might exist on a continuum of normal ex...
Both the theoretical models of suicidal process and the current empirical research do not allow us t...
This study sought to replicate previous findings of vivid suicide-related imagery in previously suic...
A suicide attempt is a very significant and usually disturbing event for the person who makes the at...
The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In this ...
Developing and testing theoretical models of suicidal processes is an important step towards designi...
From an evolutionary-psychological perspective, it has been argued that a sense of burdensomeness to...
Clinical observations indicate that suffering and psychic pain, by means of the repertory of languag...
BACKGROUND: Suicidal thoughts, acts, plans and deaths are considerably more prevalent in people with...
This study sought to replicate previous findings of vivid suicide-related imagery in previously suic...
Background: Suicidal thoughts, acts, plans and deaths are considerably more prevalent in people with...
The suicide experience combines despair with the perception of suicide as the last option to alter i...