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Ep 519 - Paul H Smith, PhD, (ret) Major, US Army

My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston

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The Importance of Surgical Empathy in Suicide Prevention

When you feel really hopeless, helpless, worthless and cornered, you form a psychological adhesion to death. And surgical empathy is a process of causing these people to feel felt without being evaluated or treated. To my observation, they would attach to feeling felt and let go of the adhesion to suicide.

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