"People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy." Thus begins Susanna Kaysen's notable 1993 memoir of her...

CAMBRIDGE -- In 1967, when Susanna Kaysen was 18, she got a pimple the morning of her first appointment with a psychiatrist in Newton, and, as teen-agers often do, she picked it. The psychiatrist noticed. "Picking at yourself," he told her. By the...

A DECISION FROM the Massachusetts Superior Court in an invasion-of-privacy case involving a controversial memoir could set a precedent favorable to publishers and authors. The ruling, in a case against Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen and Random House, found that details revealed...