Sylvia Plath - Death Studies

In 1998, a journal titled Death Studies published a special issue on Sylvia Plath. Death Studies publishes "on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families."

If you are interested in a little bit of light, late winter reading, the articles are available in full-text PDF files through Academic Search Complete, which many people have access to via their colleges and universities. If, however, you do not have access and would like the articles, please email me.

The following articles appeared in this issue.

Firestone, Lisa, and Joyce Catlett. 1998. "The treatment of Sylvia Plath." Death Studies 22, no. 7: 667-692.

Leenaars, Antoon A., and Susanne Wenckstern. 1998. "Sylvia Plath: A protocol analysis of her last poems." Death Studies 22, no. 7: 615-635.

Lester, David. 1998. "Introduction to the special issue." Death Studies 22, no. 7: 595-596.

Lester, David. 1998. "Theories of suicidal behavior applied to Sylvia Plath." Death Studies 22, no. 7: 655-666.

Runco, Mark A. 1998. "Suicide and creativity: The case of Sylvia Plath." Death Studies 22, no. 7: 637-654.

Shulman, Ernest. 1998. "Vulnerability factors in Sylvia Plath's suicide." Death Studies 22, no. 7: 597-613.

In the next issue of Death Studies appeared the following article:

Gerisch, Benigna. 1998. "'This is not death, it is something safer': A psychodynamic approach to Sylvia Plath." Death Studies 22, no. 8: 735-760.