Girl, Interrupted
2 journalers for this copy...
Picked up from a charity book shop. This sounds like the sort of gritty memoir that I might like, and made into a film. Even better!
(25/05) "Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy"
This is the true story of the 2 years that Susanna Kaysen spent in a secure institution as a teenager – pieced together from her case file and fragmentary memories some 25 years later. I’ve waited to read this for a long time and wasn’t disappointed; it’s a very honest and touching study of different degrees of ‘differentness’, alienation, instability & self-damage suffered by Kaysen and her fellow friends and captives in the McLean Hospital. The final diagnosis is of a Borderline Personality Disorder, a ‘way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche’. Kaysen’s self-analysis of the time, and the trigger, ‘Girl Interrupted at her Music’, is quite breathtaking and almost painfully poignant.
This is the true story of the 2 years that Susanna Kaysen spent in a secure institution as a teenager – pieced together from her case file and fragmentary memories some 25 years later. I’ve waited to read this for a long time and wasn’t disappointed; it’s a very honest and touching study of different degrees of ‘differentness’, alienation, instability & self-damage suffered by Kaysen and her fellow friends and captives in the McLean Hospital. The final diagnosis is of a Borderline Personality Disorder, a ‘way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche’. Kaysen’s self-analysis of the time, and the trigger, ‘Girl Interrupted at her Music’, is quite breathtaking and almost painfully poignant.
picked up at meetup, thanks to keen recommendation!
