Girl, Interrupted (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
by James Mangold, Lisa Loomer, Anna Hamilton Phelan, Susanna Kaysen
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Author: Anna Hamilton Phelan, James Mangold, Lisa Loomer, Susanna KaysenEdition: Paperback
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Published: 2000-04-30
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 167
Book Reviews of Girl, Interrupted (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
Book Review: A Girl is Institutionalized Based on a Short Psychiatric Assessment
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very interesting memoir of a woman who was hospitalized in a
psychiatric institution from the age of 18 through 22 years old based on
a psychiatric interview given by a psychiatrist who had never met her be-
fore and that lasted less than an hour.
Her diagnosis was Borderline Personality Disorder. She manages to de-
scribe the symptoms of this diagnosis as parallel to adolescent angst.
Her observations and perceptions of other female patients are both mov-
ing and numerous.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys memoirs with a
bent toward psychological insight.
Summary of Girl, Interrupted (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
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 documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen's lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant.
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