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Suicide related terms

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  • Parasuicide

  • Non-fatal act of self-harm; a SUICIDE GESTURE.

  • Partial Suicide

  • Non-fatal self-destructive act, e.g., SELF-MUTILATION.

  • Passive Suicidal Ideation

  • SUICIDAL IDEATION not involving a specific SUICIDE PLAN (Sivak et al.)

  • Pathological Bereavement

  • CHRONIC, debilitating grief process.

  • Penacide

  • Killing of PAIN; COMPLETION of SUICIDE to end intense PAIN.

  • Permission To Grieve

  • Seeking of recognition of LOSS by others by BEREAVED.

  • Personality-Based Suicidality

  • Vulnerability related to individual's personality and outlook on life.

  • Perturbation

  • Increased emotional disturbance in a SUICIDAL individual (Shneidman).

  • Postvention

  • INTERVENTION after a SUICIDE to aid the BEREAVED.

  • Potentiating Risk Factor

  • Availability of LETHAL MEANS, family history, stress, illness, etc.

  • Potentiator

  • Factor that amplifies another factor and combined effect is greater than each alone.

  • Predisposing Risk Factor

  • Condition when coupled with other RISK may lead to suicide.

  • Pre-Intervention

  • See PRIMARY PREVENTION.

  • Preventability

  • Griever's perception of the avoidability of their LOSS.

  • Primary Loss

  • The loss of a loved one to death by any cause.

  • Primary Prevention

  • Attempt to reduce occurrence of a problem in a population.

  • Prodromal Clues

  • Individual behavioral signs of SUICIDALITY.

  • Protective Factors

  • Variables that may tend to keep an individual from completing SUICIDE (e.g., religion).

  • Proximal Risk Factor

  • See POTENTIATING RISK FACTOR.

  • Psychache

  • Severe PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN(Shneidman).

  • Psychiatric Suicide

  • Concept of SUICIDE as always involving hate, depression, and guilt on part of VICTIM.

  • Psychic Blow

  • Event threatening acceptable life circumstances that may lead to SUICIDE (Farber).

  • Psychic Homicide

  • Suicide by children of abusive or hostile parents.

  • Psychic Numbing

  • Shut-down emotionally; TRAUMATIC GRIEF REACTION (Raphael).

  • Psychic Suicide

  • Willing oneself to die without any external physical action.

  • Psychobiological Model

  • Suicide caused by neural dysfunction and poor impulse control.

  • Psychodynamic Model

  • Suicide caused by lack of self-control due to personality pathology.

  • Psychological Abandonment

  • CLINICIAN'S reluctance to deal with the family of a PATIENT who died by SUICIDE (Gutheil).

  • Psychological Autopsy

  • Post-death search for cause of SUICIDE.

  • Psychological Death

  • Individual's definition of self as dead (Kalish).

  • Psychological Emergency

  • Imminent RISK of SELF-HARM or danger to others without INTERVENTION.

  • Psychological Pain

  • Pain caused by LOSS, DEPRESSION, and other emotional trauma.

  • Psychological Post-Mortem

  • Post-death search for CLINICIAN treatment errors.

  • Psychomotor Agitation

  • Restlessness, pacing, rocking, fidgeting, etc., on the part of a distressed individual.


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