Possible Causes for the Suicide of Kurt Cobain

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Possible Causes for the Suicide of Kurt Cobain

Within this assignment I wish to look at the major issues and problems

Kurt Cobain faced throughout childhood and into early adulthood. I

wish to apply three relevant approaches to this article and hopefully

show that they bare some resemblance to the problems he faced.

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Within this article I wish to briefly look at some major factors of

Kurt cobain, which influenced and affected his life and would later

come to play a major role in his suicide. The major contributing

factors I have found mostly stem from Kurt's childhood. With

psychological approaches like those of Freud and Bowlby I hope to show

how problems from Kurt's childhood and upbringing led to later

problems in his life. Kurt's parents divorced at a crucial and early

stage of his development, Kurt then lived with his mother and from

many interviews I have read, never really recovered from this. From

the article I am basing this assignment on I have been surprised to

find how much damage a divorce at such an early stage in a child's

development can have on a young individual. Within the following three

approaches I wish to apply to this article I hope to show in more

depth how divorce and secondary socialisation with members of the same

sex attributed to the problems Kurt faced throughout his life and, in

my own opinion, were major contributing factors to his death.

First Approach (John Bowlby)

Description:

John Bowlby studied theories on attachment and development within

children and also on the affects of divorce. He believed that parent's

separated from a...

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I have found answers for many questions I had from reading the article

I have supplied for this assignment and I feel that the three

approaches I have looked at show important factors in the early stages

of development that Kurt's problems stemmed from. I feel they explain

the serious impact of his parent's separation and of the importance of

a male child's need for a dominant male role in his upbringing.

Bibliography

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The article I have supplied was from an unknown source on the

Internet.

Freud's theory of Psychosexual Development was supplied by Blackburn

college on the course I am currently studying, as was Bowlby's

theories on Development and Divorce.

Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry was supplied by the book

"Personality the forth edition" by Lawrence A. Pervin.

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