false <![CDATA[Girl, Interrupted]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170699231m/68783.jpg 68783 24 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 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. 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. <i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery. 926090 1993 Girl, Interrupted total:9152|5:87|4:157|3:147|2:38|1:5| 9152 32533 11598 608 4 7 false false Tue Feb 05 16:30:45 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 18:39:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false true Thu Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 28 20:23:38 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 20:26:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 27 20:35:09 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 20:35:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 07:22:18 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 08:31:03 -0700 2008
It's interesting to note the similar war between those who have read this book. Half of them conclude...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu Feb 07 15:04:18 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 02:26:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Oct 06 04:23:56 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 04:18:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Nov 04 14:13:49 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 04 14:19:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Dec 29 17:35:03 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 17:39:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 20:49:40 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 18:02:21 -0700 2009 A prestigious mental institute in 1967.

Susanna actually manages to make friends with some of the people and even becomes an acquantance with Lisa, the sociopathic psycho who has been at McLean eight years. You learn about the v...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 17:13:06 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 14 14:27:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Oct 21 14:19:54 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 19:35:14 -0700 2008 Mrs. Ebarvia
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For my outside reading, I chose to read Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. Kaysen has also written Asa, As I Knew Him and Far Afield. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Girl, Interrupted is an ingenious me...

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Anyone who thinks it's 'a compelling and heartbreaking story' is, as the author herself noted, distancing themselves from the scary. Understandable...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 31 20:13:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 20:14:50 -0700 2009 Ms. Wheeler
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Summer Reading “Choice” Book Review
Book Review: Girl, Interrupted
Borderline personality disorder is a condition in which a person makes impulsive actions, and has an unstable mood and chaotic relationships. ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 17:23:22 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 17:28:46 -0700 2009 Ms. Wheeler
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Book Review

Susanna Kaysen’s Internal Struggle

Girl, interrupted by Susanna Kaysen had been written during the early 1900’s in Cambridge, Massach...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 15:45:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 15:46:31 -0700 2009
What went on in psychiatric hospitals in the 1960’s? Most people don’t know the pain and embarrassment that patients went through. Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted paints the perfect picture of a disturbed girl, who’s been forced to stay in a place surrounded...more...]]> 3 1 false true Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:55:10 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:56:42 -0700 2009
Girl interrupted is not an excellent book. Though I will admit it is mildly interesting to view the world through the eyes of an insane teenage girl. This book was written as an actual memoir. It was written by the main character of the book. In the beginning of the book ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jul 22 07:23:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 07:41:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 15:43:19 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 14:42:43 -0700 2009
Unfortunately or rather sadly enough, Susanna Kaysen probably didn't have a personality disorder but was ra...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=68783