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| Named Person: | Susanna Kaysen |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susanna Kaysen |
| ISBN: | 0679746048 9780679746041 9780613377171 0613377176 |
| OCLC Number: | 29386783 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993. |
| Description: | 168 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Susanna Kaysen. |
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Abstract:
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 document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
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