In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, [the author] 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 [that] psychiatric hospital.-Back cover.
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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.
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…