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May 22, 2023 · The memoir, published in 1993, catalogs Kaysen’s 18-month stay at a Belmont, Massachusetts psychiatric facility colloquially known as McLean’s; Sylvia Plath had been a patient, as had James ...
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Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling [1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Johannes Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at Her Music. [2]
Mar 20, 2023 · Thirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient.
Full Book Summary. Susanna Kaysen, an eighteen-year-old in April of 1967, agrees to enter McLean Hospital, a residential psychiatric facility in Massachusetts. Although she plans to stay only a few weeks, Kaysen remains at McLean for nearly two years. The doctor who forcefully advocates her committal to a mental hospital interviewed Kaysen for ...
May 23, 2023 · At the Massachusetts psychiatric hospital where Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen got treatment after a suicide attempt in the late 1960s, she encountered a burn victim who had set herself on fire. In the memoir, Kaysen wonders about the moment the woman lit the match, questioning whether she’d felt the same “inspiration” that Kaysen herself did before swallowing a bottle of painkillers, walking out into traffic, and collapsing.
Jun 27, 2018 · And yet the readers of twenty-five years ago— Girl, Interrupted was published in June 1993—were not quite ready to recognize the book’s detached perspective. Instead, Kaysen said, many took Girl, Interrupted as some sort of stigma-defying big- t Truth about life with mental illness. During the book tour, readers would line up to tell ...
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Jul 7, 1993 · Author Susanna Kaysen. At age eighteen, she was hospitalized in Boston's McLean Psychiatric Hospital. Her two years there, from 1967-1969 and experiences of the other young women of her ward are the subject of Kaysen's book, "Girl, Interrupted" (Turtle Bay Books).
