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Facts & Fables. The S.P.C. was founded in 1958 by a pair of Veterans Administration psychologists, Drs. Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow, after they discovered that the Los Angeles county coroner's office had been filing suicide notes for years and had amassed more than 700 of them. By mining and refining this lode of research...
Layman's Guide. Psychologists Shneidman and Farberow reported their technical findings in a book, Clues to Suicide (McGraw-Hill; 1957), and put out a lay man's guide to suicide prevention in The Cry for Help (McGraw-Hill...
...threaten it. In an effort to pinpoint the characteristics of suicidal types, two psychologists analyzed the records and personalities of 64 men-half with records of suicidal impulse, half with none-who had been in the Veterans Administration Neuropsychiatric Hospital at Los Angeles. Key findings by Drs. Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow in Public Health Reports...