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 in 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."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1993
Edition:First Vintage book edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vintage Book, a division of Random House, Inc
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1993

The Physical Object

Description:168 pages : : fac-similés ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0679746048, 9780679746041, 9780613377171, 0613377176
oclc:on1131474638
LC Classification:RC464.K36
Dewey Decimal:616.890092

Subjects

Autobiographies Autobiography Biographies Kaysen, Susanna Massachusetts Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques --… Psychiatric hospital patients Psychiatric hospital patients -- Biogra…