Girl, Interrupted
By (author): "Susanna Kaysen"
Publish Date:
1993
ISBN0679746048
ISBN139780679746041
AsinGirl, Interrupted
CharactersSusanna Kaysen
Original titleGirl, Interrupted
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 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.