Suicide and the Creative Arts -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Introduction: Issues and Summaries of Chapters -- Art Suggests Motives for Suicide -- Art Produces Suicide Contagion Effects -- Art Deepens our Understanding of Suicide -- Art Shapes and Reflects Public Attitudes toward Suicide -- Art is Enjoyable -- A Summary of the Chapters -- References -- Part I: Painting and Traditional Visual Arts -- Suicide and the Arts: From the Death of Ajax to Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XI -- XII -- XIII -- XIV -- References -- Appendix 1: Artists who Died by Suicide -- The Suicide of Ajax: A Note on Occupational Strain as a Neglected Factor in Suicidology -- The Suicide of Ajax -- The Ajax Effect Today -- Methodology -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Suicide in the Movies -- Suicide in Movies: Gender and Choice of Suicide Method -- References -- The Legacy of Lucretia: Rape-Suicides in Art, 509 BC-2008 -- The Rape-Suicide of Lucretia -- Methodology -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Films with Rape-Suicides: Titles, Year of Cirulation and Victim Characteristics -- References -- Suicide Films about Adolescents -- Adolescent Suicide in Movies -- Discussion -- References -- Pain and Altruism: The Suicides in John Wayne's Films -- Methodology -- Case Analysis -- Statistical Analysis -- Discussion -- References -- Part III: Suicide in Literature -- Suicide Motives in 61 Works of Popular World Literature and Comparison to Film -- Methodology -- A Taxonomy of Motives -- Results -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. List of Literary Classics Containing Suicides by Author, Title, Character and Motive for Suicide -- References -- Suicide in Detective Fiction -- Defining the Genre -- Further Definitions and Exceptions -- The Numbers -- Conclusions.

Novels and Short Stories Used for the Sample -- References -- Suicide in the Opera -- Some Statistical Analyses -- Discussion -- References -- Part IV: Understanding Suicide through the Arts -- Suicide in Literature -- Psychology and Literature -- Studying Suicide through Literature -- Discussion -- References -- The Psychodynamics of Suicide in Sophocles's Plays -- Oedipus -- Jocasta -- Haemon -- Antigone -- Comment -- References -- Part V: Suicide in Artists -- Suicide in Artists: National Epidemiology -- A Model of Occupation and Suicide Risk -- Demographics -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- Suicide in Creative Women -- Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Creative Women -- The Role that Creativity Played -- Comment -- Comparing the Suicidal Women with Suicidal Men -- The Role that Creativity Played -- Conclusions -- References -- Vincent van Gogh -- An Artist in Search of a Medical Diagnosis -- Suicide -- Van Gogh on Suicide -- Medications and Alcoholism -- What if van Gogh had been Given Modern Treatments? -- The Role of the Family -- References -- Artist Suicide in the Cinema -- Methodology -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Part VI: Contagion -- Copycat Effects of Fictional Suicide: A Meta-analysis -- Contagion Involving Fictional Stories of Suicide -- Review Techniques -- Formation of Hypotheses -- Methodology -- Analysis -- Discussion -- References -- Gloomy Sunday: Did the "Hungarian Suicide Song" Really Create a Suicide Epidemic? -- The Song and the Rumor -- Early Reports -- Suicide in Hungary -- Musical Subcultures and Suicide -- Can a Song Precipitate Suicide? -- Other Suicide Songs -- Research on Music Preferences and Suicidality -- Comment -- References -- The Kabuki Effect -- A Possible Suicide Epidemic after Weininger's "Sex and Character" -- References -- Part VII: The Creative Arts and Psychotherapy.

Poetry as Therapy: The Life of Anne Sexton -- The Life and Suicide of Anne Sexton -- Sexton's Psychiatric Illness -- Sexton's Poetry -- Analogies to Cognitive Therapy -- Similarities between the Creative Process and Psychotic Thinking -- Does Writing Help or Harm the Suicidal Individual? A Dissenting View -- Conclusion -- References -- Masked Depression and Suicidal Ideation in the Drawings of Schizophrenic Patients -- Artwork as a Psycho-Diagnostic Tool for Psychotic Patients -- Characteristics of Schizophrenic Paintings -- Symptoms of Depression in Paintings -- Suicidal Ideation in Patients' Paintings -- Masked Depression in Schizophrenic Patients -- Images that Words Cannot Express -- The Patients and their Paintings -- The Tree as a Symbol -- Concluding Remarks: Recurrent Symbols in Patients' Drawings -- Epilogue -- References -- Part VIII. Conclusions -- Future Work: Points of Departure and Data Sources -- Points of Departure -- Resources for Research -- Photographic Portrayals of Suicide -- References -- Index.