TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Cognitive distortions in the poetry of Anne Sexton
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Wedding, D.
SP  - 140
EP  - 144
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
N2  - Cognitive therapists have described cognitive distortions that are frequently associated with depression. These distortions include arbitrary inference, selective abstraction, overgeneralization, magnification and minimization, personalization, and dichotomous thinking, which are often present in suicidal individuals. This article suggests it is useful to conceptualize cognitive distortions in literary terms and uses the professional oeuvre of confessional poet Anne Sexton to identify salient examples.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -