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Word Use in the Poetry of Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Poets
Psychosomatic Medicine · 2001 · Vol. 63(4) · pp. 517–522
Shannon Wiltsey Stirman✉(University of Pennsylvania)James W. Pennebaker(The University of Texas at Austin)
Abstract
The study found support for a model that suggests that suicidal individuals are detached from others and are preoccupied with self. Furthermore, the findings suggest that linguistic predictors of suicide can be discerned through text analysis.
Mental Health via WritingSuicide and Self-Harm StudiesPoetryContext (archaeology)PsychologySuicide preventionPoison controlLinguisticsLiteratureArtMedicineHistory
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Adaptation, PsychologicalAdultEgoFemaleHumansInternal-External ControlMaleMiddle AgedPoetry as TopicPsycholinguisticsSemanticsSocial IsolationSuicide
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