ABSTRACT
Edwin S. Shneidman (13-05-1918 - 15-05-2009) is known as the father of contemporary suicidology. His work reflects the intensive study of lives and deaths, especially suicides, and is the mirror to his mind. Few people, like doctor Edwin S. Shneidman, are vouchsafed the rare opportunity to create a new discipline, to name it, to shape it, to contribute to it, and most importantly, to catalyze other competent investigators to invest in it: suicidology. In his reflections, Shneidman does not know whether suicide was looking for him or he was looking for suicide. Part of his motivation on that day in 1949, when he discovered 100's of <
En el año 2003 el suicidio se declaró como un problema de salud pública por la World Health Organization (WHO), y por tanto la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), junto con la Asociación Internacional de Prevención de Suicidio (IASP), declararon al 10 de septiembre como el <