Pastoral counseling of the potential suicidal person

1966 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 46-52
Author(s):  
Earl A. Grollman
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling ◽  
Suicidal Person

Zur Phänomenologie der Suizidalität

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan E. Schlimme
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Suicidal Person ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The One

The borderlines of the current psychiatric and psychological discourses concerning suicidality are ascertained when asked: What is it like to be suicidal? A phenomenological understanding concerning this question presents to us the paradox of suicidality. The suicidal person lives in a contradiction with himself. On the one hand there is the basal feeling of despair and inevitable helpless insufferability, showing life itself as a destructive force. On the other hand the extinguishing of ones own life appears as a salvation, showing death itself as a release not found in life. Indeed the paradox of suicidality – the contradictory meanings of annihilation and salvation – appears incontrovertible and cannot be solved in suicidality, for this requires either the experience of overcoming suicidality or the act of suicide itself.

Core considerations in the process of evaluation for pastoral counseling

1971 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Richard G. Bruehl
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Counseling
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