- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 192
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: VMC
- EAN: 9780349017907
- Utgivelsesår: 2023
- Bidragsyter: Kaysen, Susanna
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
''Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women''s mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women'' SCARLETT CURTIS
''Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story'' NEW YORK TIMES
A clear-sighted, unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane and insane, Kaysen''s extraordinary memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.
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 to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on