Girl, Interrupted
- ISBN-10
- 0676591914
- ISBN-13
- 9780676591910
- Series
- Girl, Interrupted
- Category
- African American actors
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-10-01
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Author
- Susanna Kaysen
Description
At the age of eighteen Susanna Kaysen was committed to a psychiatric hospital by a doctor she had seen only once. For the next two years she lived on the ward for teenage girls at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric institution as reknowned for its celebrity patients -- among them, 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 the horror and the humor of the "parallel universe" she enters, using her razor-edged perception to present vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers in the keleidoscopically shifting landscape of the 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.
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