"Girl, Interrupted" ( Susanna Kaysen )

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" This paper is a consideration of Susanna Kaysen's autobiographical account of her time spent in a mental institution, Girl, Interrupted. Committed to McLean Hospital at the age of 18 after a brief examination by a psychiatrist she had never met before, Kaysen was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and subjected to the dehumanizing conditions of what was considered at the time to be the best mental health care the American medical community had to offer. The experience forced her to spend the rest of her life questioning her own sanity and the fundamental definition of sanity itself. Her account is poignant, brutal, and unrelenting, as she examines the episode that interrupted her life and changed it forever.

On April 27, 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen left her apartment and took two trains to reach the office of a new.."

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