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A short summary of Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Girl, Interrupted.
Summaries. A directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life. In 1967, Susanna Kaysen had a headache and chased a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka.
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 American biographical psychological drama film written and directed by James Mangold, from a screenplay by Mangold, Lisa Loomer, and Anna Hamilton Phelan, and based on the 1993 memoir of the same name by Susanna Kaysen.
Susanna Kaysen’s 1993, Girl, Interrupted, is a memoir that explores Kaysen’s time as a teenage psychiatric patient in McLean Hospital in the late 1960s. Kaysen explores the murky definitions of mental health and illness, as she recounters her experience of being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and makes compelling arguments ...
One girl, Polly, attempted suicide by self-immolation, and is now covered in horrible burns and scars. Another, Lisa, is a wild and charismatic ex-junkie and the ward’s only sociopath, who frequently escapes from the hospital and plays elaborately-planned pranks on the nurses and orderlies.
Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Girl, Interrupted is a memoir by Susanna Kaysen that was first published in 1993. It describes Kaysen’s two year stay at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, starting in 1967 where she receives treatment after a suicide attempt.
