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Original Title:	Girl, Interrupted
ISBN:	0679746048 (ISBN13: 9780679746041)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

Paperback | Pages: 169 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 173053 Users | 4400 Reviews

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Title	:	Girl, Interrupted
Author	:	Susanna Kaysen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 169 pages
Published	:	April 19th 1994 by Vintage (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Health. Mental Health

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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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An interesting look in to a subject of which I have little knowledge.Susanna Kaysen shares her experience of living in a woman's mental institution for two years during the 1960's when she was 18 years old. This was a very quick and easy read - the narrative is broken up with scanned documents from Susanna's case and she discusses what the doctors and nurses have to say about her. I wasn't blown away by this novel- I think I just expected a little more from it. I found the topic to be very

Saw the movie, loved Angelina in it. Now I'll tackle the book. Update: Finished the novel. I'm now convinced that the publication and fantastic reception of this novel was probably a great case of timing. Kaysen's account of her stay in McLean Hospital is a captivating look into her mental state during her 2 year stay. However, I've got to say that if she had stayed elsewhere, or tried to publish her account now, it probably wouldn't have been received as favorably. For the most part, many of

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? Good question, isn't it? You may start asking yourself this after reading this book.I only spent a few months taking care of patients in psychiatric hospitals, but it made me really appreciate the nuances of Kaysen's story. It is the viewpoint of someone who had to experience questioning her sanity - the one thing most of us take for granted. "Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco." What some don't know about personality disorders

4.5 stars. The fifth book in my project reading one book from each year of my life. I started this one last night, getting through 25 pages in the blink of an eye. I read the next 75 pages this morning before eating breakfast, and finished it while playing Assassins Creed, cooking dinner, eating dinner, and then after dinner. I know a book is good when Im reading while doing things a person for the most part would not read while doing. I also loved that the title is taken from the title of a

I've watched the movie multiple times, and loved it; but I'm sad to say this is one of the times that the movie adaption was far superior to the book. I enjoyed the insight, and as someone with a BPD diagnosis I definitely recognised patterns of thought or behaviours that felt familiar to me, but I feel as if it didn't move me as much as I was hoping it would. Reading this has definitely motivated me to look deeper into literature focusing on mental illness, and more specifically BPD, but for

While Susanna Keysen composes some very poetic essays offering alternative and sometimes beautiful perspectives in her autobiography, her general tone is very, very defensive. Granted discussing whether or not one suffered from a mental illness can never be easy, but the book seems to be her manifesto for proving that she wasn't really borderline, as her therapist diagnosed. I don't know enough about Borderline Personality Disorder to judge - I agree that it seems women are disproportionately

Disappointing. While there were some entertaining parts, I found the whole book strangely cold and lacking. The author gives virtually no insights whatsoever into her own illnes, or really how she felt about the whole situation. She came across a little like a spoilt ungrateful rich kid, which granted, at some point she does make a semi reference to. I could not really comprehend I what she was trying to do with this book,or who she was at all. I felt like she was telling the stories of those