Overview
Presents the practice of writing as an exercise that can help prevent suicide
Compiles more than twenty-five case studies to demonstrate that suicidal ideation is expressed in writing
Offers analysis patterns to train the ability to detect suicidal ideation in writing
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (26 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Suicide in Contemporary Writers Caused by Socio-Structural and Environmental Violence and Pressures
-
Front Matter
-
-
Suicide in Contemporary Writers as an Expression of the Will, the Dislocation Between the Individual and the Reality, and Existential Alienation
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Josefa Ros Velasco is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Prior to this, she was a Teaching Assistant and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University (2017–2021). She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2017, Complutense University of Madrid) and is specialized in Boredom Studies. She is the president of the International Society of Boredom Studies and the author of the book La enfermedad del aburrimiento [The Disease of Boredom] (Alianza Editorial, 2022) and editor of the books Boredom is In Your Mind (Springer, 2019); The Culture of Boredom (Brill, 2020); The Faces of Depression in Literature (Peter Lang, 2020), and Suicide in Modern Literature (Springer Nature, 2021). Recently, she won the National Research Prize of Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Contemporary Writer and Their Suicide
Editors: Josefa Ros Velasco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28982-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28981-1Published: 06 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28984-2Due: 20 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28982-8Published: 05 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 309
Topics: Psychology, general, Community and Environmental Psychology, Psychopathology, Sociology of Culture, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Literature, general