What Is Edwin Shneidman Referring to in His Use of the Term

question 25

Multiple Choice

What is Edwin Shneidman referring to in his use of the term psychache?

• A) A person who contemplates suicide is likely to harbor simultaneously a wish to live and a wish to die
• B) Unbearable mental pain caused by the frustration of a person's most important needs
• C) A person's strong, unconscious hostility combined with a lack of capacity to love others
• D) Suicidal events that involve both the victim and a significant other in some way

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