Susanna Kaysen entered a psychiatric institution when she was 18 for an extended rest. In GIRL, INTERRUPTED, she writes about this period of her life, revealing not only the intricacies of the mind, as observed in herself and her ward-mates, but also the intricacies of the institution. This memoir has touched many people and, in 1999, was released as a successful motion picture.
critical reviews
"Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny." - (New York Times Book Review)
"Susanna Kaysen's concisely vivid account of her two-year stay at a famous psychiatric hospital in the late 1960s spares no one, least of all herself." - G. F. Mees (Entertainment Weekly, 1/21/00)
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"Kaysen -the author- has publicly shamed the movie adaptation as being overdramatic. But none the less, I recommend seeing it before you read this, if you can, just to get a loose sense of chronology. Because believe me, this book has no chronological order. Stories are told randomly. Often, characters appear in stories after we've already..." see more
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