| Title : | Girl, interrupted | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Susanna Kaysen, Author | | Publisher: | London : Virago | | Publication Date: | 2000 | | Pagination: | 168 p. | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-86049-792-6 | | Class number: | 920 Biography | | Abstract: | In the late 1960s, the author spent nearly two years on the ward for teenage girls at McLean Hospital, a renowned psychiatric facility. Her memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perceptions, while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. | | Contents note: | Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. |
Girl, interrupted [printed text] / Susanna Kaysen, Author . - London : Virago, 2000 . - 168 p. ISBN : 978-1-86049-792-6 | Class number: | 920 Biography | | Abstract: | In the late 1960s, the author spent nearly two years on the ward for teenage girls at McLean Hospital, a renowned psychiatric facility. Her memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perceptions, while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. | | Contents note: | Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. |
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