Girl, Interrupted (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Susanna Kaysen
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, Self-discovery, Sexism, Teenagers, Friendship, New England, Mental illness, Depression, mental, Hospitals, Psychiatry or psychiatrists
- Locales: Massachusetts
In 1967, after having been interviewed briefly by a physician she had never seen before who told her that she needed a rest, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital, a private residential psychiatric treatment center outside Cambridge, Massachusetts. The case for her commitment seemed to be based on a failed—and faint-hearted—suicide attempt involving fifty aspirin, and her failure to measure up to her parent’s expectations. Kaysen was not committed by her parents, but the depression that landed her there seems to have resulted from her...
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