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.

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