Type: fiction
Status: liked
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Tags: psychology
Description: This slim memoir of a college student who suffers a "breakdown" honestly explores...
2008-02-23
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Girl, Interrupted
This slim memoir of a college student who suffers a "breakdown" honestly explores the details of mental illness, specifically "borderline personality" disorders. The account starts in a cold, almost frightening way: the first page is a copy of author Kaysen's case record folder. The reader then is given a fleeting description of the quiet moments leading up to Kaysen's lengthy hospitalization, and then is shown more official documents. This juxtaposition of the clinical with the personal highlights exactly what this memoir aims to express, that the darkness of mental disease has a face, a voice, that can be hidden by labels and diagnoses.
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by schfifty
Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Description: Simply amazing. This book is a wonderful insight.
2006-11-11
Type: fiction
Status: to read
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Description: Love the movie, now I just need to read the original book =)
2006-09-11
by bekanator
Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Tags: psychology dark, depression, memoir,
Description: It's the companion to any girls' road through depression and promiscuity. It's...
2006-06-03
by tunafish
Type: documentary
Status: —
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Tags: memoir twenty_something mental_illness
Description: One of the rare instances where I liked the movie more than the book.
2006-03-27
by cowgirlout
Type: documentary
Status: —
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Tags: 9
Description: A really good book about the insane.
2006-01-08
by misquoted
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Tags: @2006
Description: I love this movie and loved the book, too. It's written sort of chaotically, but that's...
2006-01-03
Type: fiction
Status: neutral
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Tags: crazies psychiatrics
Description: Tales of a mental hospital and its inhabitants. Later, made into a movie.
2005-10-28