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| Original Title: | Girl, Interrupted |
| ISBN: | 0679746048 (ISBN13: 9780679746041) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Susanna Kaysen |
Susanna Kaysen
Paperback | Pages: 169 pages Rating: 3.9 | 173053 Users | 4400 Reviews
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| Title | : | Girl, Interrupted |
| Author | : | Susanna Kaysen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 169 pages |
| Published | : | April 19th 1994 by Vintage (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Health. Mental Health |
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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.
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Ratings: 3.9 From 173053 Users | 4400 ReviewsNotice Based On Books Girl, Interrupted
I've watched the movie multiple times, and loved it; but I'm sad to say this is one of the times that the movie adaption was far superior to the book. I enjoyed the insight, and as someone with a BPD diagnosis I definitely recognised patterns of thought or behaviours that felt familiar to me, but I feel as if it didn't move me as much as I was hoping it would. Reading this has definitely motivated me to look deeper into literature focusing on mental illness, and more specifically BPD, but forAfter reading novels like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or The Bell Jar, one could be forgiven for feeling skeptical about the treatment for the mentally ill during the 1960's. I'm not sure Susanna Kaysen's memoir will change that much. In 1967, after a short interview with a psychiatrist, she was admitted, (committed may be a better word), to a mental hospital in Massachusetts, the same one that treated Sylvia Plath. Her stay lasted about 2 years. She was told she had a "character disorder".
3 stars! While I did enjoy this book, I dont feel I loved it as much as I expected to.CW: borderline personality disorder, suicideI am not much of a non-fiction reader, so the format and storytelling methods of memoirs and such are unfamiliar to me, and I typically do not enjoy them as much as fiction novels. I did believe I would enjoy Girl, Interrupted more than other non-fiction works that Ive read because I am a big fan of the film adaptation. I feel as if the book were to be more
4.5 stars. The fifth book in my project reading one book from each year of my life. I started this one last night, getting through 25 pages in the blink of an eye. I read the next 75 pages this morning before eating breakfast, and finished it while playing Assassins Creed, cooking dinner, eating dinner, and then after dinner. I know a book is good when Im reading while doing things a person for the most part would not read while doing. I also loved that the title is taken from the title of a
Disappointing. While there were some entertaining parts, I found the whole book strangely cold and lacking. The author gives virtually no insights whatsoever into her own illnes, or really how she felt about the whole situation. She came across a little like a spoilt ungrateful rich kid, which granted, at some point she does make a semi reference to. I could not really comprehend I what she was trying to do with this book,or who she was at all. I felt like she was telling the stories of those
Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? Good question, isn't it? You may start asking yourself this after reading this book.I only spent a few months taking care of patients in psychiatric hospitals, but it made me really appreciate the nuances of Kaysen's story. It is the viewpoint of someone who had to experience questioning her sanity - the one thing most of us take for granted. "Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco." What some don't know about personality disorders
I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition. Amen to that.Look, this is a book where, if you already suffer from a mental health issue, you will get it. You will draw parallels in your own life and experiences. You will nod in agreement at
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