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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, and James Taylor -- as for its progressive methods of treatment. This is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of mental illness and recovery.

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Girl Interrupted 2001, Thorndike Press, Thorndike, ME

ISBN-13: 9780786225972

Large type / large print

Trade paperback

Books by Susanna Kaysen

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kiah

Mar 15, 2010

amazing

this story was very insightful into our minds it made me veryy appreciative of life and wanting to embrace it at one point in the book i actuelly thought i was a little bit crazy thats how much the book gets into your head i thought it was a beautiful book

Selina

Oct 15, 2007

Great

Susanna Kaysen wrote a very touching memior. Everyone feels like at outsider at some point in their life, making it easy for readers to relate to Kaysen. She also included documents and letters during her stay at the institution. Some of the imformation is blacked out, but it helps add personality to her memior. She is witty in her style and able to draw the reader into her world.

I never thought I would like like a memior taking place inside an institutuion after a failed suicide attempt. Kaysen has a very friendly tone and an interesting look on life. Its the unusual method of the book which make it so appealing.

In general this is an excellent book to read. The movie was awful, but the book is a modern masterpeice.

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