TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaysen,Susanna
TI  - Girl, interrupted
SN  - 0613377176 (Topeka)
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Kaysen, Susanna,
KW  - Psychiatric hospital patients
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Biography
N1  - Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993
N2  - 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
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