Susanna Kaysen | Nonfiction, Memoir, and Society & Culture

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Name: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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SKU: 0679746048
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

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The Bestselling Susanna Kaysen Psychological Memoir of Mid-Century Psychiatric Care

In April 1967, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen swallowed a bottle of aspirin and found herself admitted to McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Expected to stay briefly, she spent the next eighteen months confined to a ward for teenage girls after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

Through sharp, detached prose, Kaysen chronicles the routines, social hierarchies, and haunting realities of 1960s institutional psychiatry. Examining her own medical records and interacting with patients like the charismatic sociopath Lisa, Kaysen interrogates the thin, subjective line separating sanity from madness.

Why You’ll Love This Book

Susanna Kaysen delivers an unflinching, unsentimental account of psychological vulnerability and female institutionalization. A modern classic of mental health literature for memoir readers and psychology students.

Edition & Specifications

Publisher: Vintage

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publication Date: 1994

ISBN: 9780679746041

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