subsuicidal

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adjective

self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour

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Meanings

adjectivesubsuicidal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableself-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour

    The most widely used terms may be arrayed along a continuum: committed suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal gestures, suicidal threats, suicidal ideation, and subsuicidal phenomena.

    1971, Bulletin of Suicidology, number 8, page 12
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    Menninger (1938) also describes forms of subsuicidal phenomena: (1) chronic suicide includes asceticism, martyrdom, addiction, invalidism, and psychosis; (2) focal suicide involves acts of self-mutilation, malingering, polysurgery, […]

    1986, William W. Meissner, Psychotherapy and the paranoid process, page 302

Origin

From sub- + suicidal.

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