CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DIANE ARBUS: PHOTOGRAPHER OF FREAKS1 -- FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY -- LAST YEARS -- DISCUSSION -- ELIZABETH CADY STANTON: THE RATIONAL SUICIDE OF AN EARLY FEMINIST -- CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YEARS -- THE BEGINNING OF HER ACTIVISM -- ELIZABETH AS ACTIVIST -- DEATH -- DORA CARRINGTON: IN LOVE WITH A HOMOSEXUAL -- LONDON YEARS -- LIFE WITH LYTTON -- DISCUSSION -- THOMAS CHATTERTON: WRITING UNDER AN ALIAS -- EARLY DAYS -- APPRENTICESHIP -- FREEDOM AND DEATH -- DISCUSSION -- VLADIMIR KOVALEVSKII: A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE -- THE FICTITIOUS MARRIAGE -- THE RETURN TO RUSSIA -- DISCUSSION -- CROWN PRINCE RUDOLPH: A PRINCE WITHOUT POWER -- CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE -- COMING OF AGE -- MARRIAGE -- SUICIDE -- DISCUSSION -- KURT COBAIN: FROM NIRVANA TO NIRVANA -- THE END -- COMMENT -- JERZY KOSINSKI: INVENTING A LIFE -- ADOLESCENCE -- EARLY DAYS IN AMERICA -- THE RISE TO FAME -- THE FALL -- COMMENT -- JOSEPH GOEBBELS: HITLER'S FAVORITE -- FINDING HITLER -- HITLER'S GOVERNMENT -- DEFEAT AND SUICIDE -- DISCUSSION -- SIR HENRY DELVES BROUGHTON: THE MURDER SENSATION OF 1941 -- EARLY YEARS -- DIANA CALDWELL -- THE TRIAL -- DISCUSSION -- PHIL OCHS: NOT AS SUCCESSFUL AS BOB DYLAN -- COLLEGE DAYS -- NEW YORK CITY -- DETERIORATION -- INSANITY AND SUICIDE -- COMMENT -- VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH: EVEN PARANOIDS HAVE REAL ENEMIES -- CASTLEREAGH'S IRISH CAREER -- CASTLEREAGH IN ENGLAND -- THE END -- PRIMO LEVI: SURVIVOR OF AUSCHWITZ BUT NOT OLD AGE -- EARLY LIFE -- AUSCHWITZ AND THE JOURNEY HOME -- TESTIFYING -- RETIREMENT AND DEATH -- COMMENT -- THE LUXTONS: BACK TO NATURE -- THE END -- ROBERT MAXWELL: SUICIDE OR MURDER? -- EARLY EVENTS -- THE EARLY CAREER OF ROBERT MAXWELL -- MAXWELL THE MAN -- DANGEROUS INVOLVEMENTS -- FINANCIAL RUIN -- MAXWELL'S DEATH -- COMMENT -- FRANÇOIS GENOUD: BANKER FOR THE NAZIS -- COMMENT.

ELEANOR MARX: DADDY'S GIRL -- LIFE AFTER FATHER -- AFTER ENGELS' DEATH -- COMMENT -- PAUL BERN: HOLLYWOOD MOVIE PRODUCER -- MURDER OR SUICIDE? -- THE THEORY -- VICTOR TAUSK: FREUD'S PUPIL -- VICTOR'S LIFE -- VICTOR'S PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS -- VICTOR'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN -- PRECIPITATING EVENTS -- FREUD AND VICTOR -- THE FINAL EVENTS -- THE FINAL HOURS -- COMMENTS -- POVL BANG-JENSEN: DEATH AT THE UN -- EARLY LIFE -- THE CRISIS -- ANALYSIS -- Paul's Depression -- Tragedy -- STEPHEN WARD: VICTIM OF HYPOCRISY -- EARLY YEARS -- STEPHEN IN LONDON -- CLIVEDEN -- CHRISTINE KEELER -- TRIAL AND SUICIDE -- SIMONE WEIL: A MOST DIFFICULT PERSON -- LIFE AS A TEACHER -- THE TRANSITION -- LONDON AND DEATH -- VIRGINIA WOOLF: ANOTHER BLOOMSBURY SUICIDE -- HER PARENTS AND EARLY YEARS -- ADOLESCENCE AND THE FIRST BREAKDOWN -- ON THEIR OWN AS ADULTS -- MRS. WOOLF -- HER DEATH -- ANALYSIS -- GABRIELLE RUSSIER: A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IN FRANCE -- THE FACTS -- THE AFFAIR -- COMMENTS -- VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY: SOVIET POET -- THE BIRTH OF THE POET -- THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION -- THE END -- O. HOBART MOWRER: PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION -- HOBART'S EARLY LIFE -- HOBART'S DEPRESSIONS -- DISCUSSION -- JO ROMAN: PLANNING A RATIONAL SUICIDE -- EARLY LIFE -- GUIDELINES FOR RATIONAL SUICIDE -- CESARE PAVESE: AN ABSURD VICE -- HIS EARLY LIFE -- HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE -- HIS CAREER -- WOMEN -- DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE -- AN ABSURD VICE -- ERNEST HEMINGWAY: MACHO MAN -- ERNEST'S HOME -- ERNEST'S CHILDHOOD -- PORTENTS OF HIS LATER LIFE-STYLE -- THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- HIS MARRIAGES -- RELATIONS WITH HIS FAMILY -- RELATIONS WITH FRIENDS -- LITERARY CRITICISM -- ALCOHOLISM AND DEPRESSION -- MENTAL ILLNESS IN HIS FAMILY -- SUICIDE IN ERNEST'S SOCIAL NETWORK -- ACCIDENTS AND ILLNESSES -- FINAL STRESSES -- THE FINAL MONTHS AND THE MAYO CLINIC.

ERNEST AND SUICIDE -- DISCUSSION -- YUKIO MISHIMA: SEPPUKU -- EARLY LIFE WITH GRANDMOTHER -- TEENAGE YEARS -- His Homosexuality -- Mishima and His Mother -- School -- The War -- University -- ADULTHOOD -- Writing -- Family -- MISHIMA'S SUICIDE -- WHY? -- WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- REFERENCES -- JERZY FELIKS URMAN: "I'M NOT EVEN A GROWN-UP" -- INDEX.