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Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948) is an American author, best known for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted.
May 22, 2023 · She was admitted in 1967, at age 18, following a one-off visit to a psychiatrist prompted by an episode where she ingested 50 aspirin. A nurse’s admission report, one of several logs Kaysen ...
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Mar 20, 2023 · Thirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient. She was...
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.
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 · Susanna Kaysen. Photo by Michael Lionstar. When Susanna Kaysen set out to write a memoir of her time spent at the psychiatric hospital McLean, she wanted to write like “an anthropologist in the loony bin.”
