Citation

Serlin I. Humanist. Psychol. 1993; 21(3): 325-340.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1080/08873267.1993.9976926

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

From Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf and Anne Sexton, artists have identified with the downward pull of the creative unconscious toward death. Death appears in images of a sexual, mystical, or ecstatic union with the ghostly lover or mother. This paper explores an alternative creative model for women which does not lead to death, by documenting the case history of a woman artist who attempted suicide, but who lived to tell her story. The case history is written as a narrative both in the words of the author and in the words of the client. © 1993, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Language: en