Citation

Moretti M. Psychiatr. Hung. 2019; 34(2): 199-213.

Affiliation

maganpraxis es Markhot Ferenc Korhaz Pszichiatriai Gondozo, Eger, Hungary, E-mail: moretti.magdolna@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Magyar Pszichiatriai Tarsasag)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

31417008

Abstract

The study deals with the psychiatric treatment of the writer with a tragic fate, Sylvia Plath. Sylvia's treatment began with electroconvulsive therapy for suicidal thoughts at the age of 20 and soon afterended up in hospital for an attempted suicide with sleeping pills to McLean Hospital.Her treatment was trusted on Doctor Ruth Beuscher with whom she's been remaining in touch directlyor indirectly (phone, mail) all her life. At the age of 30 she passed away committing suicide at her flat in London after having been treated with antidepressant for her assumably psychotic depression.In the article we provide an insight to the main therapeutic events of Sylvia's treatment and invite the colleagues for an imaginary experiment based on modern knowledge and family system approach with a trauma focus (on theory of structural dissociation)- hoping it provides us with a conclusion to use in the treatment of suicidal patients.

Language: hu