Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 7 |
Section 2 | 11 |
Section 3 | 15 |
Section 4 | 16 |
Section 5 | 20 |
Section 6 | 25 |
Section 7 | 28 |
Section 8 | 36 |
Section 18 | 75 |
Section 19 | 79 |
Section 20 | 83 |
Section 21 | 92 |
Section 22 | 94 |
Section 23 | 107 |
Section 24 | 110 |
Section 25 | 116 |
Section 9 | 39 |
Section 10 | 45 |
Section 11 | 48 |
Section 12 | 52 |
Section 13 | 54 |
Section 14 | 56 |
Section 15 | 58 |
Section 16 | 65 |
Section 17 | 71 |
Section 26 | 123 |
Section 27 | 134 |
Section 28 | 137 |
Section 29 | 147 |
Section 30 | 150 |
Section 31 | 165 |
Section 32 | 171 |
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