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Susanna Kaysen was a rebellious, affluent teen in the late 1960's. She wrote this memoir in the early 1990's, focusing mostly on her stay at a pricey nut-house near her home in Cambridge, MA. The book is intimate and realistic, so much so that we never get a tell-all expose nor do we get a fawning tribute to the help she got at the prison-like hospital. Just the everyday reality of being locked away with other disturbed young women, dealing with the good and the bad of the staff and the attitude
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My favorite part was the distinction she outlines between mind and brain; old fashioned psychiatrists operated on a theory of mind; now they mostly treat brains.
Much better than the movie
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