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Edwin S. Shneidman

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Thanatologist and co-founder of suicidology (1918-2009)

United StatesLived 1918 to 2009 · aged 91
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Edwin S. Shneidman was an American clinical psychologist, suicidologist and thanatologist.

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1976Bruno Klopfer Award

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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.

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Lived 1918 to 2009 · aged 91
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