subsuicidal
adjEtymology From sub- + suicidal.
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self-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:
- 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: