Arthur Miller's Suicidology of the Stage: Suicide and Dramatic Form in Death of a Salesman.

The article presents the discussion on play "Death of a Salesman." Topics include psychologist Norman Farberow and psychiatrist Robert Litman, who had helped the coroner reach the verdict of a "probable suicide" by performing a "psychological autopsy"; and systematic study became a seminal development in the emerging discipline of "suicidology."