Youth Suicide PreventionSara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent L Abstract: This collection of papers discusses the use of literature in the prevention of youth suicide. The authors use Herman Melville, William Shakespeare, William Styron, Sylvia Plath, and various poetry and popular culture references to demonstrate how literature relates to the issue of youth suicide. The clinical use of literature in treatment of suicidal tendencies in youth is examined. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Suicidal PsychoLogics of MobyDick | 15 |
Preventing Adolescent | 49 |
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adolescent adolescent suicide Ahab Ahab's death Arabella becomes Bell Jar Butch and Sundance Capulet Chapter character child Christminster client committed suicide Cordelia Street creative depression despair double bind dramatic edited Edwin Shneidman emotional Esther father feelings fictional films Florida Friar girl guilt Hamlet Hardy Helen icide identity imagination individual insanity Jude the Obscure Jude's literary literature live logic madness marriage Mazza Melville Melville's Mercutio Milton Moby-Dick mother Nardo novel Ophelia parents Paul Paul's perhaps person perspective Peyton Phillotson Plath play poem Poetry Therapy Polonius present psychological revenge revenge tragedy role Romeo and Juliet Sara Munson Deats scene self-destruction sense sexual Shakespeare social society society's Sophie's Choice story study of suicide Styron subintentioned suicidal behavior tells thanatologists therapist thing Thomas Hardy thou thought tion tragedy Tybalt University values Waldo Pepper whale Willa Willa Cather words writing York young youth suicide