Citation

Shneidman E. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2005; 35(1): 1-2.

Affiliation

Thanatology Emeritus, UCLA, CA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1521/suli.35.1.1.59265

PMID

15843319

Abstract

Shneidman reports on his 1971 analysis of the suicides that had occurred in the Terman Gifted Children Study. Begun in the 1920s at Stanford University, professor Lewis Terman identified 1,528 high-IQ California students and, over the years, they have been continuously followed. Shneidman relates how, in 1971, he utilized a psychological autopsy approach to accurately predict the suicides of a small subsample of students.