Susanna Kaysen

For this assignment, I chose the movie Girl, Interrupted starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, and Whoppie Goldberg. It is set in the 1960’s and is about a young woman, Susanna Kaysen, who is diagnosis with borderline personality disorder. In the beginning the movie, she’d attempted suicide using aspirin and vodka, though she insists she just had a headache for most of movie. She is persuaded to go to a nearby mental hospital, Claymore, where she begins her stay and treatment. In the facility, she

Simply, it leaves a bad impression of sorts. The film is based on a rich memoir by Susanna Kaysen. It depicts the suffering of a fictional character referred to as Susanna. The film does not primarily give focus on true hospital course during the recovery process of the fictional character. Much of the focus is on the characters recovering without the aid of the hospital or staff

on a true story. Daisy Random, Susanna Kaysen, and Lisa are the three main characters. Mrs. Randone is hospitalized for depression and bulimia nervosa disorder. The way this movie portrays numerous mental health disorders is excellent. A variety of clients from different cultural diversities are being treated at Claymore. It is an awesome movie, the way the patients’ act out the personalities and disorders gives an excellent understanding of the disorders. Susanna is being treated for depression

story. Daisy Randone, Susanna Kaysen, and Lisa are the three main characters in this movie. Mrs. Randone’s is hospitalized for depression and bulimia nervosa disorder. The way this movie portrays numerous mental health disorders is excellent. A variety of clients from different cultural and diversities are being treated at Claymore. It is an awesome movie, the way the patients’ act out the personalities and disorders gives an excellent understanding of the disorders. Susanna is being treated for depression

boundaries to which they are limited. Women are seen as the weaker sex and have been severely over diagnosed with depression, anxiety, or any other type of mental illness. We see this issue addressed in Virginia Woolf’s “Professions for Women” and Susanna Kaysen’s memoir “ Girl, Interrupted”. Women are taught to that they need to display certain behavior and uphold a perfect appearance in order to be taken seriously in society. Charlotte Perkins Stetson uses the art of writing to bring us along the

are mentally ill, we see that there are negative effects through the analysis of my primary sources. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1890) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Chrysanthemums” (1930) by John Steinbeck, and “Girl, interrupted” (1960) by Susanna Kaysen, all three narrators are confined and institutionalized in some way, and their treatments are proved ineffective as illustrated by the misdiagnosis, loss of autonomy and obsession that

my youth that I see on a daily basis, I was predominantly interested in Susanna Kaysen as outside of myself (as opposed to identifying with her). I was intrigued by Susanna Kayson’s character, her self-involved, self-projecting, and self-personifying extended beyond her and into the surrounding characters, she potirade on the movie. Each girl there represents one of her symptoms, making each girl merely a projection of Susanna herself. Kayson divides herself, repeatedly, each copy, each personality

The Social Model of Mental Illness The social model of mental illness emphasizes the social environment and the roles people play. Thomas Scheff maintains that people diagnosed as mentally ill are victims of the status quo, guilty of often unnamed violations of social norms; thus the label "mental illness" can be used as an instrument of social control. I agree with Scheff's analysis, and I strongly concur with the view Thomas Szasz takes on the notion of mental illness. Szasz argues that much

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 seclusion, ice-baths, Electro-shock therapy, and even the Hospitals atmosphere itself can make one wonder

Adler’s Individual Psychology provides a good representation of the struggles of Sussana Kaysen with depression and feelings of loneliness. In Adler’s view of human nature people are the product of more than just what Freud said about genetics and their environment. They are a product of understanding of their abilities and the life choices that they make. It is a holistic view of the individual that matters the most – their thinking, feeling and acting. Adler stresses the idea that we are shaped