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Author / Creator:Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-
Edition:1st Vintage Books ed.
Imprint:New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
Description:168 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Kaysen, Susanna, -- 1948- -- Mental health.
Kaysen, Susanna, -- 1948-
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
Commitment of Mentally Ill -- Personal Narratives.
Mental Disorders -- personal narratives.
Mental health.
Mental illness.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention.
Mentally ill women.
Psychiatric hospital patients.
Teenagers -- Mental health.
Massachusetts.
Autobiographies.
Biography.
Personal narratives.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8778568
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ISBN:0679746048 (pbk.)
9780679746041 (pbk.)
9780613377171 (Topeka)
0613377176 (Topeka)
9781439558072 (PawPrints hardcover)
1439558078 (PawPrints hardcover)
Notes:Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993.
Summary: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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