Sylvia Plath - Poetry's Lioness

"That morning Aurelia took Sylvia to the bright and sympathetic woman who was the Plath family doctor. She of course referred them to a psychiatrist, a young man who talked with Sylvia and then recommended shock treatments. There was no second opinion. Sylvia received out-patient shock treatments — bipolar, electroconvulsive shock, given with no preparation and no follow-up counseling — at the direction of a doctor she disliked intensely. No sooner were the treatments begun than August came and the supervising doctor went on vacation, referring Sylvia to a colleague of his."

Sylvia Plath, A Biography, Linda Wagner-Martin (via red-hat-reads)