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Girl, Interrupted

by Susanna Kaysen

ISBN13: 9780679746041
ISBN10: 0679746048
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.

Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

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Susanna Kaysen is also the author of the novels Asa, As I Knew Him and Far Afield. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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: anitaballerina, May 26, 2010 (view all comments by anitaballerina)
This was an amazing book, I enjoyed every page of it. It is filled with very short chapters that read more like short memories. It didn't seem to be very organized, but I think that added to it in an odd way.
The book takes s through the authors memories while she was in a mental hospital. We get a rare inside look at how it was back then in the hospitals.
It is a truly beautiful and moving book. I wish it was longer that is really my only complaint about the book.
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: cbrech, July 22, 2009 (view all comments by cbrech)
Hey, you should read this article about Amy Malloy, it is SO funny.

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: leelerbaby, February 23, 2008 (view all comments by leelerbaby)
Straight forward account of a girl's stay in a mental institution. She places no blame or passes any judgements, just recalls the experience as she remembers it . In the end your left wondering whether she needed or even benefited from being placed there or if it was all the result of a doctor overreacting to symptoms that most teenagers at that time were going through.
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780679746041
Author:: Kaysen, Susanna
Publisher:: Vintage Books USA
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Biography
Subject:: Women
Subject:: Mental Illness
Subject:: Mentally ill
Subject:: Specific Groups - Special Needs
Subject:: Autobiography
Subject:: Mental Disorders
Subject:: Mentally ill children
Subject:: Psychiatric hospital patients
Subject:: Commitment of mentally ill.
Subject:: Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Subject:: Massachusetts
Subject:: Mental health
Subject:: Kaysen, Susanna - Mental health
Subject:: Psychiatric hospital patients - Massachusetts
Subject:: Biography - General
Subject:: Biography-Women
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Series:: Vintage
Series Volume:: 74
Publication Date:: 19940431
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: 12 ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
Pages:: 192
Dimensions:: 8 x 5.2 x 0.5 in 0.4 lb

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