This study aims at analyzing Anne Sexton and Stevie Smith’s obsession with death as established in their poetry, concentrating mainly on Freud’s psychoanalysis of the drive. Examining writers’ personal life psychological state mind, revealing main reason behind desire to die, describing way they reflected this wish poems are major concerns study. The first part presents a brief introduction con...

In the process of psychiatric consultation, the issue of suicidal thought, planning and attempt carry high significance in terms of management and prognosis. However, both these terms are not well understood by many mental health professionals and often the residents fail to detect whether the patient has expressed suicidal thoughts or it was merely a death wish.1 Many psychiatric admissions ar...

Similarity between objects (documents, persons, answers to a questionnaire, etc.) is generally determined through relations between representations of these objects. In the case of binary representations the presence of a properly (e.g., an index term) carries a weight of one, the absence a weight of zero. In many similarity studies common zeros are ignored. This situation is called the zero in...