About Norman Farberow
Norman Louis Farberow (February 12, 1918 – September 10, 2015) was an American psychologist, and one of the founding fathers of modern suicidology. He was among the three founders in 1958 of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, which became a base of research into the causes and prevention of suicide. == Early life and education == He was born in 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After completing his tour of duty in World War II, Farberow enrolled in the University of California, Los Angeles. While enrolled in UCLA's doctoral program in psychology Farberow studied suicide. With few relevant references to draw upon for his 1949 dissertation, Farberow saw the potential for reawakening “interest in a long-neglected, taboo-encrusted social and personal phenomenon.” Farberow earned his doctoral degree from UCLA in 1950 while working with veterans in the Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic. He helped found the suicide prevention center along with Robert E. Litman. == World War II == Farberow served as a World War II Air Force Captain. The war years were a time in the United States of relatively low suicide rates, a wartime phenomenon commonly observed when a nation's armed forces and citizens unite under feelings of common purpose and mutual goals. == Career == In the decade after the war, suicide rates rose quickly as the sense of unity and shared purpose began to disappear.
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