Girl, Interrupted
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786225955 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen's lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. . It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny
Duh, this book is not about psychology it is about her! A Customer After reading a few of the comments, which appalled me, I feel the need to comment myself. I have read the book, listened to the tape, and now seen the movie. It is NOT trying to belittle or give an actual diagnosis. This book is to free oneself (a.k.a. Kaysen) from that inner questioning. The way in which the book is written is as if it was a self journey. She did not say that BPD was not a valid disorder. However, she did imply she was not sure how she was diagnosed with the label. If you are looking for a witty piece of literature to read this is for you. It is about the trials and tribulations of one. Red Pineapple said Living in Two Worlds. First, be warned: this is nothing like the movie. Some of the characters are the same, but this book does not follow the same linear, safe direction as the film. Most of the events of the movie don't even take place in the book. This is a memoir of the truest sense, in that the author explores simply her own understandings of her experience, her illness, and her surroundings. Kaysen's diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, although not discussed until the final chapters, is the overall theme of this book. Kaysen, like many of her fellow patients, is straddling the line between sanity and insanity,. Lee Parker said I read constantly and this instantly became one of my treasures.. After seeing the movie based on this book, I thoroughly regretted watching it first. While I did really enjoy the movie, the book would have been a lot better if I could have made the characters look like I thought they should have looked and not had a book starring Wynona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. While both amazing actors, they do not belong in a book.Before I read this book, I never really thought how much we all are insane at times; how many of us are insane in a sane world, as Susanna Kaysen put it; but after I read the book, I realized that we are all insane in an insane world.I completely related
Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.From the Trade Paperback edition.. 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. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers