Edwin Shneidman

Edwin Shneidman, Ph.D., Lett.D. (Hon) is professor emeritus of thanatology at UCLA. He is the founder of the American Association of Suicidology and founding editor of the quarterly journal Suicide and Life-threatening Behavior. While at at the National Institute of Mental Health he directed the nationwide program in suicide prevention. He has been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University)and a visiting professor at Harvard University. He...See more

Edwin Shneidman, Ph.D., Lett.D. (Hon) is professor emeritus of thanatology at UCLA. He is the founder of the American Association of Suicidology and founding editor of the quarterly journal Suicide and Life-threatening Behavior. While at at the National Institute of Mental Health he directed the nationwide program in suicide prevention. He has been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University)and a visiting professor at Harvard University. He has written or edited a dozen books, primarily on suicide and death. In his nineties, he is a widower, has four sons, all health professionals, and six grandchildren. See less