Girl, interrupted /
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-
Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen - First Vintage Books edition - 168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993
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 of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery
0679746048 (pbk.) 9780679746041 (pbk.) 9780613377171 (Topeka) 0613377176 (Topeka)
93043339
RC464.K36 / A3 1994
BIO KAY
Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen - First Vintage Books edition - 168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993
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 of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery
0679746048 (pbk.) 9780679746041 (pbk.) 9780613377171 (Topeka) 0613377176 (Topeka)
93043339
RC464.K36 / A3 1994
BIO KAY