Table of Contents: The Contributors
Chapter 1. Introduction: Issues and Summaries of Chapters A Summary of the Chapters, pp. 1-12
PART I: PAINTING AND TRADITIONAL VISUAL ARTS
Chapter 2: Suicide and the arts: From the Death of Ajax to Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, pp. 15-47
(Karolina Krysinska)
Chapter 3: The Suicide of Ajax: A note on occupational strain as a neglected factor in suicidology, pp. 50-53
(Steven Stack)
PART II: SUICIDE IN THE MOVIES
Chapter 4: Suicide in movies: Gender and choice of suicide method, pp. 57-61
(Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman)
Chapter 5: The legacy of Lucretia: Rape-suicide in art, 509 BC- 2008, pp. 63-78
(Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman)
Chapter 6: Suicide films about adolescents, pp. 79-91
(Burcu Sevim)
Chapter 7: Pain and altruism: The suicides in John Wayne’s films, pp. 93-109
(Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman)
PART III: SUICIDE IN LITERATURE
Chapter 8: Suicide motives in 61 works of popular world literature and comparison to film, pp. 113-124
(Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman)
Chapter 9: Suicide in the detective story, pp. 125-136
(Fred Mench & Lisa Honaker)
Chapter 10: Suicide in the opera, pp. 137-145
(Beverly Vaughn & David Lester)
PART IV: UNDERSTANDING SUICIDE THROUGH THE ARTS
Chapter 11: Suicide in literature, pp. 149-157
(David Lester)
Chapter 12: The psychodynamics of suicide in Sophocles’s plays, pp. 159-165
(David Lester)
PART V: SUICIDE IN ARTISTS
Chapter 13: Suicide in artists: National epidemiology, pp. 169-188
(Steven Stack)
Chapter 14: Suicide in creative women: David Lester, pp. 189-199
Chapter 15: Vincent van Gogh, pp. 201-214
(Maurizio Pompili)
Chapter 16: Artist suicide in the cinema, pp. 215-228
(Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman)
PART VI: CONTAGION
Chapter 17: Copycat effects of fictional suicide: A meta-analysis, pp. 231-243
(Steven Stack)
Chapter 18: Gloomy Sunday: Did the “Hungarian suicide song” really create a suicide epidemic? , pp. 245-252
(Steven Stack, Karolina Krysinska & David Lester)
Chapter 19: The Kabuki effect, pp. 253-255
(Karolina Krysinska & David Lester)
PART VII: THE CREATIVE ARTS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Chapter 20: Poetry as therapy: The life of Anne Sexton, pp. 259-269
(David Lester & Rina Terry)
Chapter 21: Masked depression and suicidal ideation in the drawings of schizophrenic patients, pp. 271-298
(Dalia Merari)
PART VIII: CONCLUSION
Chapter 22: Future work: Points of departure and data sources, pp. 301-309
(Steven Stack & David Lester)
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