Girl, Interrupted interrogates how women are 'mad' when they refuse to conform – 30 years on, this memoir is still important
- Written by: Catharine Coleborne, Professor of History, School Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
Winona Ryder played Susannah Kaysen in the film of Kaysen's memoir, Girl, InterruptedColumbia Pictures/IMDBThirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient.
She was admitted, aged 18, in 1967. A few months earlier,...