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Theories of suicidal behavior applied to Sylvia Plath
1Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, New Jersey, USA.
Death Studies
|May 29, 1999
Abstract:
The suicide of Sylvia Plath is examined from the perspective of 15 theories of suicidal behavior and is found to fit best with psychoanalytic and cognitive theories of suicide, in particular those of Aaron Beck, Henry Murray, and Edwin Shneidman.