Girl, Interrupted

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital.She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treati...

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital.She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.

Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

苏珊娜·凯森（SusannaKaysen）

18岁的凯森，只喜欢两件事：写作，谈情说爱。考大学的巨大压力，让她怀疑自己是不是真实地活着，于是吞下了五十片阿司匹林。她被送往迈克林恩，一处正规而有名的精神病院。

多年后，凯森和她的大部分病友都已离开医院，淹没在平凡的凡尘世界里。然而，同任何一个平凡人不同的是，她们在内心更清楚自己想要什么。

这本书便是凯森身在迈克林恩两年的真实记录。