Girl Interrupted has many signs of psychological disorders and aspects. This book was written as an autobiography of Susanna Kaysen’s life and her experiences in a mental ward. She talks about her personal experiences and those of her fellow patients. The book describes her struggle to recover from her diagnosis, and how some of her fellow patients coped with their own personal diagnosis. In reading this book a reader is can distinctly see several different aspects of psychological effects and disorders. Some of the main psychological factors that I found to be very prominent in this reading are; sensation, illusion, altered states of consciousness, perception, perception viewed as a parallel universe, analysis theory, and finally Kaysen's
