Girl, Interrupted Study Guide consists of approx. 45 pages of summaries and analysis on Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. Browse the literature study guide below:
Susanna Kaysen offers a personal memoir regarding her diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder and subsequent confinement at McLean Hospital. After attempting suicide, Kaysen voluntarily commits herself and is assigned to a medium-security psychiatric ward. Over the next eighteen months, she receives drugs, therapy, and analysis. During her period of commitment, she meets several other young women, who are also receiving various forms of treatment for disparate mental illnesses. Toward the end of her stay Kaysen receives a marriage proposal, which she accepts. The memoir concludes with a retrospective reevaluation of the time period and topics presented. (
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