Girl Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen Kartoniert (TB)

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. 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 un iverse 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.