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Title: Sigmund Freud on Suicide
Author: Robert E. Litman, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southern California and on the Faculty of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. For the last eight years, he has been Chief Psychiatrist of the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles. He has published numerous articles on suicide, accidents, sexual perversions, and other aspects of self-destruction.
Angel Garma, M.D.
Founder of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and on the Faculty of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Institute. He has been in private psychoanalytic practice since 1930 in Berlin, Madrid, Paris and Buenos Aires. He is the author of Sadism and Masochism in Human Behaviour and several other books concerning the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, dreams, peptic ulcers and headaches.
Edwin S. Shneidman, PH.D.
Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology) at the University of Southern California and Co-Director of the Suicide Prevention Center in Los Angeles. Recently, he was appointed national Special Consultant to the newly-established NIMH Suicide Prevention Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He has just completed an edited volume entitled Essays in Self-Destruction which will be published later this year. He is co-editor with Norman Farberow of Clues to Suicide (1957) and The Cry for Help (1961), and is the author of many articles and chapters on suicide and death.
Bettina Warburg, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell University. She is a Member and on the Faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and was a Member of the Committee for Study of Suicide during its operation. She has published a paper entitled “Suicide, Pregnancy and Rebirth.”
Lilla Veszy-Wagner, PH.D.