Girl, Interrupted
Recommended by Rae Earl, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #6 in Borderline Personality Disorder, Ranked #14 in Mental Health — see more rankings.
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... more
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... more
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Girl, Interrupted is ranked in the following categories:
- #56 in Anxiety
- #78 in Author Biography
- #65 in Autobiography
- #23 in Depression
- #23 in Eating Disorder
- #75 in Gilmore Girls
- #45 in Memoir
- #91 in Nursing
- #19 in Psychiatry
- #70 in Psychology
- #91 in Psychotherapy
- #29 in Suicide
- #63 in True Stories
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