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Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American biographical psychological drama film written and directed by James Mangold, from a screenplay by Mangold, Lisa Loomer, and Anna Hamilton Phelan, and based on the 1993 memoir of the same name by Susanna Kaysen.
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 ...
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Feb 20, 2024 · Kaysen first wrote Girl, Interrupted 30 years ago, back when being a “sad girl” was private, shameful, and not at all aestheticized. The memoir follows the 18 months Kaysen spent at McLean ...
Jan 1, 1993 · April 29, 2022. Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen. 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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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. She...
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May 23, 2023 · Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir, ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ turns thirty years old this summer. The author, now 74, reflects on the book, which catalogued her time at a psychiatric institution, as well as the changing field of mental health treatment today.
