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  2. Sylvia Plath effect - Wikipedia

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    Sylvia Plath. The Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers. The term was coined in 2001 by psychologist James C. Kaufman, and implications and possibilities for future research are discussed. [1] The effect is named after author Sylvia Plath, who died by suicide at the ...

  3. James C. Kaufman - Wikipedia

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    He coined "the Sylvia Plath Effect," after finding that female poets were more likely to be mentally ill than other writers, in a paper in the Journal of Creative Behavior, [6] and his work on poets dying young has been featured in the New York Times, [7] NPR, BBC, CNN, and newspapers and magazines across the world.

  4. The Bell Jar - Wikipedia

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    The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed.

  5. Book Review: 'Loving Sylvia Plath' attends to polarizing ...

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    In the wake of Plath’s death by suicide, her husband and fellow writer Ted Hughes constructed a narrative that he was the “stabilizing factor” in his wife’s life but that, in the end, even ...

  6. Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia

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    Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.

  7. Confessional poetry - Wikipedia

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    In 1955 Lowell requested a position at the university in part based on the suggestions of his psychiatrist, who advised Lowell to establish a routine in his life to help mitigate the effects of bipolar disorder. [15] Lowell's class drew in a number of talented poets, including Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Sexton joined the class in 1958, and ...

  8. REPORTS The Psychological Consequences of Money

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    meager finances will not lead to the same effects as reminders of financial affluence, which we tested systematically in Experiment 2. Participants were randomly assigned between twomanipulations;oneconditionactivatedtheidea of an abundance of money (high money) and the other activated the idea of restricted amount of

  9. The new college student sex trend and why it's so dangerous

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    Some of these products, they say, contain natural ingredients like maca and ginseng − which, though harmless, won't have much of any impact on your sex life, save for a placebo effect.