Word Use in the Poetry of Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Poets
Psychosomatic MedicinePublished 1 July 2001
Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, James W. Pennebaker
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Support is found for a model that suggests that suicidal individuals are detached from others and are preoccupied with self and linguistic predictors of suicide can be discerned through text analysis.
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The study found support for a model that suggests that suicidal individuals are detached from others and are preoccupied with self. Furthermore, the findings suggest that linguistic predictors of suicide can be discerned through text analysis.
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