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Non-fiction. Some names and distinguishing characteristics have been changed.
c. 1993, Susanna Kaysen. Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc., New York.
Overview
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 it's 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.
Chapters
Toward a Topography of the Parallel Universe
The Taxi
Etiology
Fire
Freedom
The Secret Of Life
Politics
If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now
My Suicide
Elementary Topography
Applied Topography
The Prelude to Ice Cream
Ice Cream
Checks
Sharps
Another Lisa
Checkmate
Do You Believe Him or Me?
Velocity vs. Viscosity
Security Screen
Keepers
Nineteen Sixty-Eight
Bare Bones
Dental Health
Calais Is Engraved on My
Heart
The Shadow of the Real
Stigmatography
New Frontiers in Dental Health
Topography of the Future
Mind vs. Brain
Borderline Personality Disorder
My Diagnosis
Farther on, Down the Road, You Will Accompany Me
Girl, Interrupted
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