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The adult Kaysen confesses to fighting a mild revulsion toward the mentally ill, born of fear that she might backslide into that “parallel universe.” She hopes never to return to the sad place where mental instability collides with a society quick to isolate it.
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.
May 22, 2023 · “Time is very weird,” says Susanna Kaysen, best known for her first memoir, Girl, Interrupted. “It just seems impossible that it’s 30 years ago that it came out. Of course, at the same time, it...
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The author of Girl, Interrupted, as well as its main subject, Susanna Kaysen was just eighteen when she was admitted to the McLean psychiatric facility to be treated for Borderline Personality Disorder. After a little over a year of instability, recklessness, seeing patterns, and experiencing circuitous thought patterns, Susanna voluntarily ...
Jan 1, 1993 · Girl, Interrupted is 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen. In April 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts, after attempting suicide by overdosing on pills.
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Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Susanna Kaysen, is the daughter of Harvard economist Carl Kaysen—once an advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Kaysen is the author of several books of fiction and memoir, of which Girl, Interrupted is by far her most well known.
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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 ...
