Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Sylvia Plath (song) Sylvia Plath effect; Media in category "Sylvia Plath" The following 3 files are in this ...
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.
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 ...
The 'Sylvia Plath' effect by Deborah Smith Bailey from American Psychological Association; The Myth of the Mentally Ill Creative blog entry about creativity and mental illness by a professor of psychology and creativity scientist Keith Sawyer
Sylvia Plath, American writer and poet [37] [38] Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression; [39] [40] he was 57. Bud Powell, American jazz musician [41] Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter [42] [43] Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist [44]
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.
Kelly Reilly, left, as Beth Dutton on Yellowstone, while Michelle Randolph, center, and Ali Larter are co-stars on Landman. (Paramount Network/Courtesy Everett Collection; Emerson Miller ...