Susanna Kaysen

Am I crazy or am I just a girl? Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen is not merely an exercise in empathy, but a reflection of our shared humanity and the universal quest for understanding and acceptance. I share similarities with Susanna, how the body reacts to the brain, empathy, and finding friendship with those whom you would not expect. Questioning is a very interesting thing. When Susanna questions the amount of time she spends with the doctor before going to McLean, she states: “We can't both

old, Susanna Kaysen and her experiences at a local psychiatric facility. She had just graduated high school when she swallowed a bottle of pills with a bottle of vodka. Once released from the hospital, Kaysen visited a psychiatrist, where she argued that a headache was the reason behind her suicide attempt. After speaking with Kaysen, her psychiatrist suggested that she take a break and to admit herself to Claymoore, a psychiatric hospital. With a cab already waiting for her outside, Kaysen felt

simply non-conforming, as opposed to insane. In Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, this fine line between sanity and insanity is explored to great lengths. Through the unveiling of Susanna’s past, the reasoning behind her commitment to McLean Hospital for the mentally ill, and varying definitions of the diagnosis that Susanna received, it is evident that social non-conformity is often confused with insanity. When life becomes

the main character Susanna acts in all sorts of manners, ranging from being unreasonable, frightened, happy, sad, or disturbed due to the varieties of her behaviors. In accordance with DSM V, the movie Girl, Interrupted explores the memoir of a young woman through her struggles with mental health during her stay in a Claymoore psychiatric institution during the 1960’s. "Maybe I really was crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.” (Susanna Kaysen) The protagonist of

Susanna Kaysen's Journal-Memoir, Girl, Interrupted Sane or normal people have wondered at one time or another what it is like in a hospital that houses the insane. Susanna Kaysen opens the door to the reality and true insanity of being a patient in a mental hospital renowned for famous ex-patients, including Ray Charles Sylvia Plath, and James Taylor in her book, Girl, Interrupted. She stays focused on reality and her idea of perception as well as the friendships she acquires in her two

Girl, Interrupted is a memoir written by Susanna Kaysen who was admitted to a mental institution as a young girl. She was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder due to some her “depressive” and “crazy” behavior. Throughout the memoir, we are able to see the realizations that Kaysen has regarding the treatment of young women and mental patients. She touches on some of the stigmatizations that she witnessed herself and of others around her. Some of her experiences surrounding her stay at the

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 male dominants. Be it therapist or physicians who either aided in their mental deformities or created them. They are similar in the sense that they are both restricted to confinement and must endure life under the watchful eye of overseers. However similar their situations may be, their responses are different.      In

The subject of this analysis is Susanna Kaysen. Susanna is an eighteen-year-old white women who was sent to McLean hospital where she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. In this analysis, I plan to describe all her relevant symptoms of abnormal behavior, discuss the etiology, and treatment considerations. In addition to discussing her diagnosis and make the case that she was misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder and that she instead suffered from major depressive disorder

Girl Interrupted is a personal memoir from Susanna Kaysen, who tells the story of her diagnosis with borderline personality disorder and psychoneurotic depression in the mid-sixties. She is voluntarily confined at Claymore Hospital after attempting suicide with a bottle of aspirin and alcohol after engaging in an illicit relationship with her past high school teacher. Miss Kaysen is a young girl of college age who comes from a well off family. She had casual relationships with the opposite sex and

What’s the pathology behind the offence? Although every aspect of psychology interests me, psychopathology is the core of my passion. Furthermore, having read Susanna Kaysen’s memoir, ‘Girl, Interrupted’, I realise how easy it is to misdiagnose someone as Kaysen struggled to accept her doctor’s hurried diagnosis. There are many symptoms that correlate with more than one mental illness. A study conducted by Zimmerman et al showed that the more of the borderline