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Susanna Kaysen's memoir of her two-year stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility in 1967. She describes the patients, staff, and events she experienced, and reflects on the nature of mental illness and her diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.
A movie based on a true story of Susanna Kaysen, a teenager who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and sent to a mental institution in 1967. There, she befriends a group of troubled women and faces challenges, conflicts and choices.
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. Starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto ...
A memoir of Susanna Kaysen's time as a teenage psychiatric patient in McLean Hospital in the late 1960s. She explores the murky definitions of mental health and illness, and the subjective nature of personality, behavior, and disorder.
Girl, Interrupted. Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling [1] 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 . The memoir's title is a reference to the Johannes Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at ...
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. Kaysen narrates Girl, Interrupted in a cool, dispassionate voice, sketching the characters and scenes that ...
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A memoir of the author's two-year stay at a psychiatric hospital in 1967, where she was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The book explores the themes of mental illness, identity, and freedom through the lens of the ward's diverse and complex characters.
