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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.
Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948) is an American author, best known for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted . Background. Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Annette (Neutra) and economist Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Her family is Jewish. [3]
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Dr. Wick, an older psychiatrist, has trouble relating to the youth culture of her patients and becomes uncomfortable during any discussion of sex. The girls uniformly detest Mrs. McWeeney, the evening nurse, who is decidedly old-fashioned in her dress, speech, and insistence on strict authority.
Jan 1, 1993 · Susanna Kaysen. 3.93. 246,191 ratings10,398 reviews. 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.
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May 23, 2023 · Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir, ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ turns thirty years old this summer. The author, now 74, reflects on the book, which catalogued her time at a psychiatric institution, as well as the changing field of mental health treatment today.
Jun 27, 2018 · And yet the readers of twenty-five years ago— Girl, Interrupted was published in June 1993—were not quite ready to recognize the book’s detached perspective. Instead, Kaysen said, many took Girl, Interrupted as some sort of stigma-defying big- t Truth about life with mental illness. During the book tour, readers would line up to tell ...
