Meaning of subsuicidal | Babel Free

Definitions

self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour

not-comparable

Examples

“The most widely used terms may be arrayed along a continuum: committed suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal gestures, suicidal threats, suicidal ideation, and subsuicidal phenomena.”

“Menninger (1938) also describes forms of subsuicidal phenomena: (1) chronic suicide includes asceticism, martyrdom, addiction, invalidism, and psychosis; (2) focal suicide involves acts of self-mutilation, malingering, polysurgery, […]”

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