Girl, interrupted

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Kaysen writes of her experiences, augmented by pages from her medical record, in a psychiatric hospital and of the social and emotional assumptions that divide people into deviant or normal.

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Title Statements

Full title :Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen.

Summary

Kaysen writes of her experiences, augmented by pages from her medical record, in a psychiatric hospital and of the social and emotional assumptions that divide people into deviant or normal.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1993.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Turtle Bay Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

Description:168 pages : : facsimiles ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0679423664, 9780679423669, 9780679746041, 0679746048
oclc:ocm28155618
LC Classification:RC464.K36
Dewey Decimal:616.89/0092

Subjects

American authors -- Biography. -- 1900-… Autobiographies Autobiography Biographies Commitment of Mentally Ill Internement (Psychiatrie) Kaysen, Susanna Maladies mentales Massachusetts mental disorders Mental health Mental illness Mental illness -- Biography Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques --… Personal Narrative Personal narratives Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospital patients -- Biogra… Récits personnels