Girl, Interrupted
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ISBN: 9781860497926
author:
Susanna Kaysen
book format: Paperback
publishing house: Virago
publication date: 2000
-2
language:
English
binding: Paperback
number of pages: 168
Susanna Kaysen
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 send to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in the psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, Anne Sexton and Ray Charles.