International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Destructiveness may, however, sometimes seriously disrupt and interfere with both artistic creation and treatment. Destructive feelings may become overwhelming and lead neither to self-creation in treatment nor to artistic creations, even by the highly skilled. Instead, these feelings may be dealt with by uncreative attempts at control and stasis. Trauma is a mental disorder that disrupts people’s thoughts and behaviours. Today, trauma is recognized as one of the most common mental illnesses worldwide that need to be studied and investigated in some disciplines and through literature in particular. Anyone may develop trauma and depression regardless of age or social background, yet, women are most likely prone to depression. Sylvia Plath was unable to turn creation into self-creation, the construction of new and valuable aspects of personality and emotion. Strong drives to destruction as well as creation appear in many of her poems. There are new images of the ominous, deadly side of homely kitchen things and of living bodies and flowers.  The Bell Jar is a highly autobiographical novel that unveils Plath’s seemingly perfect life, underlain by grave personal discontinuities, some of which doubtless had their origin in the death of her father Otto Plath.

Keywords: Mental illnesses, Trauma, Depression, Neurotic, Psychotherapy