Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself
October 20th, 2010 |
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One of the more fascinating psychotic conditions in the medical literature is known as Cotard’s syndrome, a rare disorder, usually recoverable, in which the primary symptom is a “delusion of negation.” According to researchers David Cohen and Angèle Consoli of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, many patients with Cotard’s syndrome are absolutely convinced, without [...]
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Is killing yourself adaptive? That depends: An evolutionary theory about suicide
October 11th, 2010 |
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Most psychological science is the science of being and feeling like a human being, and since there is only one human being that I have or ever will have experience in being, it is not always clear to me where my career ends and my personal life begins. And this is especially salient to [...]
Keep reading »Suicide Used as Plot Device in Car Ad, Public Health Norms Be Damned
May 4th, 2013 |
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On May 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report showing that suicide among middle-aged Americans has risen substantially. Perverse coincidence perhaps, but that document arrived about a week after Hyundai Europe pulled an ad that sparked sustained outrage because it shows a guy trying to commit suicide with fumes from his [...]
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