BJPsych bulletin
The price of brilliance: vulnerability triad and systemic failures in the '27 Club' mortality phenomenon.
Valentin Skryabin
Published: 202610.1192/bjb.2025.10198
Abstract
The '27 Club' myth masks a public health problem: systems that amplify musicians' psychological vulnerability. This multiple-case study uses reflexive thematic analysis of Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, triangulating biographies, archiv…
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