Sylvia Plath and depression

Sylvia Plath and the depression continuum.

It confounds me that they have not listed the loss of her father at the tender and impressionable age of 8 & 1/2 as a part of her medical and psychiatric history, but place it instead in family and social history, how for goodness sake would the loss her Dad not affect her beyond compare… find it all in the box or be marked as xyz by your friendly shrink