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Clinical psychology

intolerable psychological pain made up of hurt, anguish, and despair, proposed as the main cause of suicide.

In clinical psychology, psychache refers to intolerable psychological pain made up of hurt, anguish, and despair, proposed as the main cause of suicide. This meaning comes from Shneidman (1993) in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.[1]

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References

Shneidman, E. S. (1993). Commentary: Suicide as Psychache. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 181(3), 145-147. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199303000-00001

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