Girl, Interrupted
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Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with
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McLean Hospital
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McLean Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. McLean maintains the world's largest neuroscientific and psychiatric research program in a private hospital. It is the largest psyc
Girl, Interrupted
…inspiration for critical analysis of the female teenage experience. While writing the novel Far Afield, Kaysen began to recall her almost two years at McLean Hospital. She obtained her file from the hospital with the help of a lawyer. A film adaptation of the memoir directed by James Mangold and starring Winona Ryder…
Print of the McLean Asylum in 1853, in Somerville, Massachusetts
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