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by Locnar on July 29th, 2004

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The poet, Sylvia Plath, in her one and only novel, The Bell Jar, refers to books on abnormal psychology that she claims detail the very condition from which she suffers. What are these books and how did they describe her mental condition?

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  • by Jeremiah Britt on November 29th, 2004

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    I don't know what book_S_ she refers to in her mostly autobiographical Bell Jar, but I heard in an interview that she read Freud's Abnormal Psychology. I would say she was bipolar, possibly dealt with body disorder and obsessive tendacies and was, obviously, suicidal.
    For more info I suggest Rothenberg's "Creativity and madness: New findings and old stereoptypes"

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    • What was the book? You don't tell us--find out! It's spelled TENDENCIES.

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      by Answers101 on March 7th, 2006

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