The Resource Girl, interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
Girl, interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
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The item Girl, interrupted, Susanna Kaysen represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage books edition.
- Extent
- 168 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993
- Isbn
- 9780329615680
- Label
- Girl, interrupted
- Title
- Girl, interrupted
- Statement of responsibility
- Susanna Kaysen
- Subject
-
- Biographies
- Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-
- Kaysen, Susanna, 1948- -- Mental health
- Massachusetts
- Mental health
- Mental illness
- Mental illness -- Biography
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Massachusetts
- Mentally ill women
- Mentally ill women -- Personal narratives
- Autobiographies
- Personal narratives
- Psychiatric hospital patients
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography
- Teenagers -- Mental health
- Teenagers -- Mental health -- Biography
- Teenagers with mental disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Personal narratives
- Personal narratives
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 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
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kaysen, Susanna
- Dewey number
-
- 616.89/0092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- Young Adult
- Interest level
-
- 9-12
- UG
- LC call number
- RC464.K36
- LC item number
- A3 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NLM call number
- WM 100 K23g 1994
- Reading level
-
- 8.9
- 5.4
- Study program name
-
- Reading Counts RC
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Kaysen, Susanna
- Psychiatric hospital patients
- Mental illness
- Mentally ill
- Teenagers
- Teenagers with mental disabilities
- Mentally ill women
- Kaysen, Susanna
- Mental health
- Mental illness
- Mentally ill
- Mentally ill women
- Psychiatric hospital patients
- Teenagers
- Massachusetts
- Label
- Girl, interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm29386783
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage books edition.
- Extent
- 168 pages
- Isbn
- 9780329615680
- Lccn
- 93043339
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Girl, interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1993
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm29386783
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage books edition.
- Extent
- 168 pages
- Isbn
- 9780329615680
- Lccn
- 93043339
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Biographies
- Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-
- Kaysen, Susanna, 1948- -- Mental health
- Massachusetts
- Mental health
- Mental illness
- Mental illness -- Biography
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Massachusetts
- Mentally ill women
- Mentally ill women -- Personal narratives
- Autobiographies
- Personal narratives
- Psychiatric hospital patients
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Massachusetts -- Biography
- Teenagers -- Mental health
- Teenagers -- Mental health -- Biography
- Teenagers with mental disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Personal narratives
- Personal narratives
- Autobiographies
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