The Social Relations of Suicide (IN: Suicide: Understanding and Responding: Harvard Medical School Perspectives, ed. by D Jacobs and H N Brown)

Presents a wide-ranging discussion of the social relations of suicide that includes a review of sociological theories of suicide; information about connections between social isolation & self-destructive behaviors; an analysis of the influence of negative interaction on suicidal behavior; & an examination of the role of sexuality in suicide & death. Concludes by illustrating the themes of social isolation, negative interaction, & sexual deviance as they affected the life of Sylvia Plath. (LH)