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Girl, Interrupted
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In "," the novelist Susanna Caisson, 43, uses a series of vignettes to describe her experiences as a teen-age mental patient in 1967-68. Using herself as a troubled - and troubling - example, Kaysen demonstrates with humor the severe problems with diagnosis, the sensation of psychiatric hospitaliza ....
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....safety, they are allowed to eat only with plastic utensils and to shave with a razor only under watch . Patients learn much more from each other than from their therapists, sometimes for better but too often for worse - how to manipulate and mutilate their bodies, relationships, their environment. By intentionally acting more or less sane, patients soon learn to harass the staff, persuading nurses into spending half an hour opening windows - heavily screened, multiple-locked - just to make them.... |
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