1970 23 Mar. 22/1 Another characteristic of the pseudocidal persons was found to be ‘their understandable propensity to leave suicide notes’.
1972 13 103/2 The pseudocidal syndrome is quite unrelated to the suicidal syndrome.
2000 S. Lee & A. Kleinman in E. J. Perry & M. Selden (2003) xiii. 293 In more recent years, some psychiatrists have trivialized female suicidal behaviour as ‘manipulative’, ‘hysterical’ or ‘pseudocidal’.