Wiki Page, Test Course: Week 7: Depression and suicide

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2014-06-30T22:46:01-06:00

Depression as a psychiatric disease Prof Max Bennett. The relationship between childhood environment, the neuropathology of depression and suicide, using the case study of Virginia Woolf.

Bennett MR. (2011) The prefrontal-limbic network in depression: Modulation by hypothalamus, basal ganglia and midbrain. Prog Neurobiol. 2011 Feb 22. [Epub ahead of print]. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21349315

Personal narratives of suicide Scott Fitzpatrick. Language plays an important constitutive role in structuring our knowledge of suicide. This lecture will consider the role of narrative in contributing to theoretical and historical developments in the study of suicide.

Paperno, I. (1997). Introduction: The symbolic meanings of suicide, in I. Paperno, Suicide as a cultural institution in Dostoevsky's Russia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Sanderson, R. K. (2001). Suicide and life-writing. In M. Jolley (Ed.), Encyclopedia of life writing: Autobiographical and biographical forms (Vol. 2, pp. 852-853). London: Fitzroy Dearborn