Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

149 pages • first pub 1993 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir psychology challenging emotional informative slow-paced

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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 in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as r...

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