Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted came out in 1999 in the theaters. The character I chose in the movie is the bold and dangerous Lisa Rowe, played by Angelina Jolie. Lisa was diagnosed as a sociopath, also called Antisocial Personality Disorder. She is the “villain” of the movie. She behaves badly, a bad influence to other patients, and pushes people to their breaking points. “Antisocial personality disorder is a disorder that is characterized by a long-standing pattern of disregard for other people’s rights,…

whole container of ice cream just because you were sad about something? Have you ever felt like you were observing this world through a window? Many people could answer “yes” to these questions, but does that mean they are crazy. In the novel, Girl, Interrupted the author Susanna Kaysen, examines what her life was like being labeled crazy and put in a mental hospital for two years in the 1960’s. In this essay, the treatment of Susanna will be evaluated in comparison to the other patients. The…

Girl, Interrupted is a memoir written by Susanna Kaysen in 1993. In her memoir, Kaysen recalls her time spent at a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Her story is told through a collection of nonlinear vignettes as she chronicles her two years spent at psychiatric hospitall and her life after her time there. Kaysen recalls that in April of 1967, as an eighteen-year-old, she was admitted to McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts after attempting…

Susanna Kaysen’s book, Girl, Interrupted, is an amazing piece of literature that tells the story of the two years she spent at McLean Hospital. Kaysen depicts the theme of confusion between freedom and captivity through her experience at McLean Hospital to show how one cannot be found without the other. While questioning the difference between non-conforming and being crazy, Susanna Kaysen also allows the readers to question themselves and their ideas of normality. The use of literary elements,…

My Cinematic Social Worker Girl Interrupted is a film that was produced in 1999 by James Mangold. This movie takes place in a mental hospital in the late 1960’s. It is based on an autobiography of an eighteen year old girl named Susanna. At the beginning of the movie Susanna is discussing with her therapist how she took a bottle of aspirin with a shot of vodka, which her therapists believes was an attempt to kill herself, but she denies this as her motive. She is then sent to a psychiatric…

“Girl, Interrupted” by Susanna Kaysen is based on a true story about the author, who spent time at a mental institution called McLean Hospital in the late 1960’s. Throughout the book the author writes about her experiences at the hospital and the people she encountered while she was there. While Susanna Kaysen encountered many people at McLean, none played a major role in the conflict that arises in the book, which is Susanna being sent to the institution and having to face her mental illness.…

INS Rough Draft In the novel, Girl Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen, Susanna constantly noticed events around her that demonstrated prejudice against women. The novel was based in the 1960s when doctors did not know much about how to treat diseases. They could easily diagnose illnesses without needing proof that one had an illness, and for this reason, they commonly got the diagnoses wrong. There was a boom in the diagnosis for identity disorder around this time period. Dissociative identity…

adverse which could lead to insomnia and even suicide. A proper treatment can heal a person suffering from mental illness and make his life back to normal, making him more confident than before. Lisa’s Mental Illness in the Movie Girl, Interrupted In the movie, “Girl, Interrupted,” Lisa is diagnosed as a sociopath or Anti Social Personality Disorder. She is manipulative, charismatic, abusive and…

Susanna Kaysen’s memoir, Girl, Interrupted, contains multiple psychological themes and ideas including classical and operant conditioning, family systems theory, and reactivity. These themes and ideas can be observed often between Kaysen and the staff members, specifically the head nurse, Valerie, and Mrs. McWeeny, and other patients of McLean Hospital, specifically Lisa and Alice Calais. In the McLean Hospital, not only are the patients conditioned by the staff, but the staff members are also…

best-selling novel “Girl, Interrupted,” is a memoir about her time spent at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Massachusetts, in 1967 after swallowing 50 aspirin. She only spends less than twenty minutes speaking to a doctor during which he diagnoses her with having borderline personality disorder with schizophrenic tendencies. He then swiftly and forcibly sends her to McLean Hospital where she spends nearly two years of her life, at the age of 18, in the ward for teenage girls. Her…