num_pages: 169
description: 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 documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
language: English
title: Girl, Interrupted
titlecomplete: Girl, Interrupted
characters: Susanna Kaysen
genres: Biography, Mental Illness, Psychology, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Memoir, Contemporary, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 232400
places: Massachusetts
publisher: Vintage