One popular cultural myth about the mentally ill is the archetype of the "Sexy Crazy Girl", which we've seen in movies, comic books, and music. Losing your grip with realit...
Toward a Topography of the Parallel Universe
Kaysen begins her account of mental illness and hospitalization with a question often posed to her: how did she end up there? Kay...
The main character in Susanna Kaysen's, "Girl, Interrupted" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper" are similar in the fact that they both were suppressed by ma...
Girl, Interrupted was the movie I chose to watch for my Film Review. This 1999 movie, directed by James Mangold, tells a true tale of a woman’s eighteen-month stay at a psyc...
Rory Boyan Writing 1 04/19/02
Considering all the treatment methods used at Mclean Hospital, harsh physical treatments were rarely productive. Methods such as sec...
Girl, Interrupted (1999) directed by James Mangold is largely based on a semi- autobiographical book by the same title. The movie chronicles eighteen year old Susanna Kayse...
GIRL, INTERRUPTED by Susanna Kaysen (New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1993)
1. Author:
Susanna Kayson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1948 where she still lives.
She...
, INTERRUPTED: a Cuckoo's Nest of Our Time
Published on: July 20, 2001
It is important to note, I think, that this is an essay comparing two very different pers...