Literature Survey

Primary Texts
Bell Jar
- Sylvia Plath
The Catcher in the Rye
- J. D. Salinger
Malignant Sadness The Anatomy of Sadness
- Lewis Wolpert
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Stephen Chbosky
Em and the Big Hoom
- Jerry Pinto
All the Bright Places
- Jennifer Niven
It's Kind of a Funny Story
- Ned Vizzini

Secondary Texts
Mourning and Melancholia
Sigmund Freud
Mental Health and Mental Illnesses: Out of the Closet?
Carol T. Mowbray and Mark C. Holter
The Logic, Intentionality and Phenomenology of Emotion
Michelle Montague
The Dialectics of Depression
David A. Karp
Adolescent Depression
Kutcher, Marton and Boulos

Suicidal Behaviour and Depression in Young Adults

Tousignant and Doris Hanigan

Differences among Adolescent, Young Adult and Adult Callers of Suicide Help Lines
Diane de Anda and Melanie A. Smith

Negative Life Events and Psychological Distress among Young Adults

Pamela BRaboy Jackson and Montenique Finney

Symptomatology of Depression
Aaron T. Beck, Brad A. Alford