Girl, interrupted

by Kaysen, Susanna

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Title Statements

Full title :Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999
Edition:1st Vintage books ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vintage Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999

Notes

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993.

The Physical Object

Description:168 pages : : facsimiles ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0679746048, 9780679746041
oclc:ocm50053518
LC Classification:RC464.K36
Dewey Decimal:616.89

Subjects

Biographies Kaysen, Susanna Massachusetts Mental health Mentally ill Mentally ill -- Biography. -- Massachus… Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques --… Personnes vivant avec un trouble de san… Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospital patients -- Biogra…