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Bookmark or Share- ‘Mad’ or refusing to conform? - The ConversationThirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient. She was...
- Susanna Kaysen on Writing ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ 30 Years Later | Vanity Fair“It’s Almost Like It Isn’t About Me”: Susanna Kaysen on Writing Girl, Interrupted, 30 Years Later. “I feel about it almost like a child. It’s like a child that grew up and went away,” the...
- Susanna Kaysen Talks ‘Girl, Interrupted’ 30 Years Later - The CutAt the Massachusetts psychiatric hospital where Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen got treatment after a suicide attempt in the late 1960s, she encountered a burn victim who had set herself on fire. In the memoir, Kaysen wonders about the moment the woman lit the match, questioning whether she’d felt the same “inspiration” that ...
- Girl, Interrupted - WikipediaGirl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Johannes Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at Her Music.
- The Paris Review - ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ Twenty-Five Years LaterGirl, Interrupted. , Twenty-Five Years Later. By Tara Wanda Merrigan. June 27, 2018. Arts & Culture. Susanna Kaysen. Photo by Michael Lionstar. When Susanna Kaysen set out to write a memoir of her time spent at the psychiatric hospital McLean, she wanted to write like “an anthropologist in the loony bin.”.
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