Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-

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July 7, 1993

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Susanna Kaysen Discusses her Time Spent in a Mental Hospital.

Author Susanna Kaysen. At age eighteen, she was hospitalized in Boston's McLean Psychiatric Hospital. Her two years there, from 1967-1969 and experiences of the other young women of her ward are the subject of Kaysen's book, "Girl, Interrupted" (Turtle Bay Books).

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