# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-s-shneidman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:12.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-s-shneidman"
name: "Edwin S. Shneidman"
slug: "edwin-s-shneidman"
description: "Edwin S. Shneidman was an American clinical psychologist, suicidologist and thanatologist. Together with Norman Farberow and Robert Litman, in 1958, he founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center where the men were instrumental in researching suicide and developing a crisis center and treatments to prevent deaths."
tagline: "Thanatologist and co-founder of suicidology (1918-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shneidman_Award.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1918-05-13"
deathDate: "2009-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.81
  momentum:             0.1679586563307494
  historical:           9.161665333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edwin Shneidman"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_S._Shneidman"
    title: "Edwin S. Shneidman"
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    title: "Edwin S. Shneidman"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Shneidman"
    title: "Edwin Shneidman"
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    title: "Edwin S. Shneidman"
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    title: "Edwin S. Shneidman"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
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    title: "에드윈 슈나이드먼"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump