Girl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteenyearold 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 clienteleSylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charlesas for it...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
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Lena Dunham
“4. Prozac Nation by @LizzieWurtzel it?s hard to remember just how much this book (along with Girl, Interrupted) changed the landscape of mental health in America for women. | 4. Prozac Nation by @LizzieWurtzel it’s hard to remember just how much this book (along with Girl, Interrupted) changed the landscape of mental health in America for women.”
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