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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Susanna Kaysen
		Kaysen contrasts her imprisonment in the hospital institution where the patients' movements were monitored carefully by five minute checks and almost parasitic relationships between the staff and the patients to the unrestricted freedom she experienced in the underground tunnels connecting the hospital buildings.
		Kaysen's definition of the hospital as an atom can be expanded to describe her view on how the hospital is the microcosm of society or perhaps, even the underlying fundamental structure of the world outside of the hospital.
		Kaysen depicts her life of in the hospital as being so carefully monitored by five-minute checks that noted her presence, her existence, that the five minute checks became the mechanism for which the passage of time could be observed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Susanna-Kaysen (759 words)

	Susanna Kaysen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Susanna Kaysen (born 11 November 1948) is an American author.
		Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		She is the daughter of the economist, Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susanna_Kaysen (127 words)

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		Kaysen's dislike of school and disdain for college were not consistent with expectations and she had the distinction of being the only graduate of her high school not to go on to college.
		Kaysen thinks it is disruptive for writers to be celebrities and dislikes being pressed to elaborate on a subtext to her words.
		Kaysen is as demanding of her audience as she is of herself and is of the opinion that many of those who read "Girl, Interrupted" are not readers.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/survivalsnatural/susannakaysen.html (2062 words)

	Girl, Interrupted (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Susanna Kaysen, eighteen years-old in April of 1967, voluntarily checks herself into the fictitious Claymoore Hospital (based on McLean Hospital, the actual institution featured in the memoir), after an attempted suicide.
		Kaysen is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and her stay extends two years.
		Susanna is enchanted in particular by the unruly Lisa, who encourages her to stop taking her medications and generally resist the influences of therapy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girl,_Interrupted_(film) (505 words)

	Susanna Kaysen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A doctor diagnoses Kaysen with borderline personality disorder in 1967, when she is 17.
		The previous year, Kaysen attempted suicide by swallowing fifty aspirin.
		Over the next two years, Kaysen confronts her illness, experiences profound unhappiness, as well as the treachery and kindness of peers and authority figures, and finally meets the future that awaits her outside the confining but protective walls of the ward.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/girlinterrupted/terms/char_1.html (78 words)

	Susanna Kaysen (In-Depth Analysis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Susana Kaysen is eighteen years old at the beginning of her memoir.
		Kaysen narrates Girl, Interrupted in a cool, dispassionate voice, sketching the characters and scenes that illustrate life in a mental hospital for the affluent in the late 1960s.
		The adult Kaysen confesses to fighting a mild revulsion toward the mentally ill, born of fear that she might backslide into that “parallel universe.” She hopes never to return to the sad place where mental instability collides with a society quick to isolate it.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/girlinterrupted/terms/charanal_1.html (318 words)

	Eye Weekly - BOOKS: Girl, Interrupted -- Susanna Kaysen - 08.18.94
		Kaysen's darkly comic version of The Bell Jar begins when, after a brief session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, she is sent to McLean's and committed for two years.
		Kaysen's credibility as a "victim" is jeopardized by the fact that although she was committed, she was also free at any time to leave -- that is, until she threw a big enough fit that her parents and the doctors at McLean's decided to take that option away from her.
		The glimpse Kaysen offers of her particular cuckoo's nest provides insight into the mind of a child of the '60s: of course, anyone in their right mind would rather "go crazy" than be willing to pass from girlhood to womanhood in those sexist times.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.18.94/ARTS/bo0818d.php (355 words)

	Amazon.com: Girl, Interrupted: Books: Susanna Kaysen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kaysen's startling account of her two-year stay at a Boston psychiatric hospital 25 years ago was an eight-week PW bestseller.
		Kaysen's difficult and often terrifying journey - from the ordinary daughter of two achieving parents to a patient at a psychiatric hospital to, tentatively, a recovered young woman - is at once moving and beautiful.
		Susanna Kaysen has written a beautifully poignant memoir of her voluntary commitment to a mental institution at the tender age of eighteen.
	www.amazon.com /Girl-Interrupted-Susanna-Kaysen/dp/0679746048 (2188 words)

	Susanna Kaysen's 'Girl Interupted' review on the official website of Laura Hird
		One of the books was Susanna Kaysen’s memoir ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ about her several year experience before, during, and after her stay in a famed Massachusetts mental institution (McLean Hospital for Mental Health) in the late 1960s that also housed Ray Charles, and Sylvia Plath.
		Not that Kaysen is very insightful about her ”borderline personality” disorder, nor capable of extended moments of insight nor poetry, but she compensates for her lack of great craftsmanship in wordplay and sentence/paragraph construction with a daring approach to the memoir.
		Kaysen is ill, checks herself in, meets girls far worse off than her, sort of recovers, foolishly marries young, then reflects on what it all means.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/girlinterrupted.html (1836 words)

	girl, interrupted
		Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted comes in at a lean, mean 169 pages; you could probably read it in less time than it takes to watch the new movie version.
		In the movie, we see that Susanna wasn't only interrupted in her life; she was, as Kaysen points out, flirting with madness, and the movie's Lisa represents what Susanna no longer wants to become.
		Susanna is interrupted on her way to being Lisa; at the end, we feel, she's begun to figure out how to be herself.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/girlint.html (677 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Susanna Kaysen Lays It on the Line: The "Girl, Interrupted' author is not screwing around ...
		Kaysen's deadpan, ironic, stripped-down style of telling and razor-sharp intellect accompany her into the world of dysfunctional vaginas just as they did into the world of mentally ill teenagers.
		As Kaysen wends her way from internist to gynecologist, from alternative health nurse to biofeedback specialist, from blue-collar boyfriend to molecular-biologist buddy, her sensibility is her only defense against the madness.
		I reached the curmudgeonly and reclusive Kaysen hunkered down at her apartment in Cambridge, smoking cigarettes (in Girl, Interrupted she confesses that one of her many reasons for choosing writing as a career is that you can smoke without people bothering you) awaiting the publication of her new book.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-10-19/books_feature.html (1466 words)

	Article 48
		Susanna Kaysen: her startling memoir recalls the novelist's experiences at a psychiatric hospital.
		Eight years ago, Kaysen the editor was working for the American version of the Italian art magazine FMR in an old house in Cambridge, not at all unlike Dinah Sachs, the narrator of Asa.
		Then Kaysen decided to interweave a dozen pages of the hospital records into the book, "because the contrast between their language and my language was interesting.
	www.english.udel.edu /kharbot/reviewofkaysonsbook.htm (2159 words)

	Janet Si-Ming Lee's Writing Sample: "Parallel Universes" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kaysen makes an analogy to how she fiddled around in the shadows of insanity for awhile, only understanding the minute, concrete details, the forms of things without fully comprehending the connections between the ideas that make sense of the details into overall themes.
		When Kaysen first studied at the painting at the Frick museum with her professor, the girl in the painting with the "light muted, winter light, but her face is bright" seemed to be urgently warning her, "Don't!" However, Kaysen says she did not listen, kissed her teacher, and eventually went crazy.
		Kaysen feels that she lost those two years, because although time continued linearly in the real world, time was circular at the hospital, therefore, she felt that the passage of events which defines time did not really occur in the hospital.
	www.jsiming.com /parallel_universes.htm (3096 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: The Camera My Mother Gave Me
		Kaysen made headlines with her previous memoir, Girl, Interrupted, the 1993 bestseller that chronicled her two-year stay in a mental institution.
		Kaysen doesn't drift into explicit or intentionally shocking territory; she remains witty and plainspoken throughout the whole medical ordeal.
		Kaysen, 52, is already being criticized for taking autobiography to a new level of exposure with her personal confessions.
	www.bookpage.com /0110bp/nonfiction/camera_my_mother_gave.html (398 words)

	Psyke.org - Girl, Interrupted
		Susanna Kaysen was born in 1948 and brought up in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she still lives.
		Susanna Kaysen is depressed and unwell as a result of being out of touch with the society she grew up in.
		Susanna (Ryder) is labeled with “borderline personality disorder,” a diagnosis as ambiguous as her own emotions, and while Jolie chews the scenery as the resident bad-girl sociopath, Ryder effectively conveys an odyssey from vulnerable fear to self-awareness and, finally, to healing.
	www.psyke.org /bookstore/biography/girl_interrupted (924 words)

	Books \| Mind and body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kaysen provides an amusing one-page answer to the question of why she doesn’t like these psychoactive drugs: " Because often depression is an appropriate reaction.
		Either Kaysen’s terse prose has left something out or aging is going to be much harder for the author than she yet realizes.
		Susanna Kaysen will read from The Camera My Mother Gave Me at WordsWorth, 30 Brattle Street in Harvard Square, tonight, Thursday October 18, at 7 p.m.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/books/documents/01967132.htm (837 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Susanna Kaysen - The Camera My Mother Gave Me at Epinions.com
		Susanna begins by stating the obvious: vaginas are often without sensation.
		It is very funny, Susanna keeps a sense of humor throughout the whole ordeal, and though some of the things she goes through seem painful, you will still find yourself laughing at this hysterical book.
		Susanna Kaysen is an excellent author, and this book is proof of it.
	www.epinions.com /content_113943613060 (516 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - GIRL INTERRUPTED by Susanna Kaysen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As she recounts her two-year sojourn in a Boston psychiatric hospital and her experience of what she calls the "parallel universe" of madness, Kaysen compels readers to consider how thin the line is that separates "madness" from "sanity," deviance from normalcy, and treatment from control.
		And it makes us wonder whether some forms of mental disturbance are not really illness, but, rather, new names our society has given to unhappiness and confusion, states that are common enough in teenage girls or, for that matter, in anyone who possesses an interior life.
		Susanna has no apparent reaction to Daisy's death, but after Torrey, another patient, is released into the custody of her neglectful parents, she has an episode of what her case report calls "depersonalization" [p.105] and mutilates her hands to see if "there are any bones in there" [p.103].
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/girl_interrupted.asp (1089 words)

	Amazon.ca: Girl, Interrupted: Books: Susanna Kaysen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Susanna is then sent away in a taxi, which takes her to McLean Hospital.
		Kaysen makes no effort to sugarcoat the conditions or situations involving her and the other patients at the hospital.
		Kaysen's writing, that separates her from the rest, is her ability to covey abstract thoughts and theories in a very personal way.
	www.amazon.ca /Girl-Interrupted-Susanna-Kaysen/dp/0679746048 (1389 words)

	Guide -- 'Girl' Power Wins with Heart
		Together Susanna and Lisa wreak havoc in the girl's ward of hospital.
		Though Ryder's performance is seamless in and of itself, her character, Susanna, cannot truly be taken seriously as mentally ill in the film.
		Kaysen's novel, on the other hand, presents deep self-reflection allowing the reader a window into her agony and battle with her illness.
	www.thehoya.com /Guide/012800/guide3.htm (606 words)

	Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen Detailed Book Review
		Susanna Kaysen writes this memoir of the eighteen months she spent in a mental institution right after she leaves high school.
		Susanna Kaysen is a tormented young woman, barely coming out of her teenage years.
		Susanna is sent to McLean's Mental Hospital, where she is diagnosed with a "borderline personality disorder.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/info_22822.asp (595 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Author Spotlight: Susanna Kaysen
		Susanna Kaysen is the author of the novels Far Afield and Asa, As I Knew Him and the memoir Girl, Interrupted.
		Susanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina–which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt.
		The Camera My Mother Gave Me takes us through Susanna Kaysen’s often comic, sometimes surreal encounters with all kinds of doctors—internists, gynecologists, “alternative health” experts—as well as with her boyfriend and her friends, when suddenly, inexplicably, “something went wrong” with her vagina.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=15233 (296 words)

	For Susanna Kaysen's, something went wrong The Camera My Mother Gave Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Kaysen's case, her vaginal woes ruined her relationship with her boyfriend: "For two years we were happy with the activities we shared: thinking up home improvements for him to make and having sex.
		Kaysen herself, eventually giving up on sex, decides that she would be satisfied if her vagina would let her sit on the couch and read in peace.
		Some critics will complain that Kaysen's subject is "too personal," but I would argue that it suffers--so to speak, poor thing- -from the opposite problem.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20011111/ai_n13930985 (595 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Camera My Mother Gave Me: Livres en anglais: Susanna Kaysen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bluntly describing her yearlong effort to deal with a searing pain in her vagina, Susanna Kaysen doesn't stint on the details of what this malady did to her relationship with her boyfriend (nothing good), nor is she forgiving of the callousness and stupidity displayed by some of her doctors and various alternative health practitioners.
		Eight years ago, Kaysen's affecting story of her two years in a psychiatric hospital, Girl, Interrupted, helped sparked the memoir craze and later became a Hollywood blockbuster.
		The most intriguing element is Kaysen's explosive relationship with an unnamed live-in boyfriend who, despite her pain, pressures her to have intercourse: "I want to fuck you, goddammit, he said, lunging at me, pushing his hand between my legs.
	www.amazon.fr /Camera-My-Mother-Gave-Me/dp/0679763430 (567 words)

	Girl, Interrupted, By Susanna Kaysen Essay
		The novel is the autobiographical account of Susanna Kaysen’s life just after her graduation from high school in the late 1960s.
		Susanna survived her suicide attempt and was then sent by her parents to see a psychiatrist.
		Upon her arrival at the hospital, Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and spends over a year in the ward.
	www.exampleessays.com /viewpaper/87545.html (293 words)

	Girl, Interrupted
		Actual events in the life of author Susanna Kaysen provide the inspiration for the new film Girl, Interrupted, based on her best-selling memoir.
		The book chronicles the two years of Kaysen's life spent in a mental institution shortly after her graduation from high school.
		Once in Claymoore, Kaysen thinks she is there to rest and get herself collected for a short period before returning to her parents.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/girl_interrupted.html (443 words)

	Susanna Kaysen - Guest Interviews at Exploring Womanhood
		Susanna Kaysen is the author of the novels Far Afield and Asa, As I Knew Him and the memoir Girl, Interrupted, and now, The Camera My Mother Gave Me.
		Kaysen: My most important message (I guess) was that there are some things that can't be fixed and some questions that don't have answers and that we have to live with that.
		Kaysen: Yes, I wanted to use the title The Pussy Papers, but there were several reasons not to.
	www.exploringwomanhood.com /interviews/kaysen.htm (1273 words)

	Girl Interrupted Movie Quotes - Atlyrics.com
		Susanna Kaysen: Well, I haven't exactly been a ball of joy, Melvin.
		Susanna Kaysen: Is that what you learned in your advanced studies at night school for Negro welfare mothers?
		Susanna Kaysen: You know, taking us out for ice cream in the middle of a blizzard makes you wonder who the real wack jobs are.
	www.atlyrics.com /quotes/g/girlinterrupted.html (405 words)

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