Kaysen, Susanna  1948- <br/><br/>
Girl, interrupted 
Susanna Kaysen 
 - 1st Vintage Books ed 
 - New York  Vintage Books  1994 
 - 168 p.  ill  21 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679746048 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>jubb10718862 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Commitment of Mentally Ill--Personal Narratives<br/>Mental Disorders--Personal Narratives
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Kaysen, Susanna  Mental health Psychiatric hospital patients  Biography  Massachusetts 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC464.K36 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.890092