In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital.She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treati...
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital.She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.
Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
I have to admit, though, that I knew I wasn’t mad.
It was a different precondition that tipped the balance: the state of contrariety. My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my negations. When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep; when I was supposed to speak, I was silent; when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn't matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got the gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings. They proved my existence. All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No. (查看原文)
The next book I read after "the audacity of hope" was "Girls interrupted". It describes the life of a girl,Susana, who is mentally disordered. This is a very interesting and well written book. I liked it a lot. One of my favorate page is the doctor's note ...
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南海出版公司2016版
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0 有用 应弦 2020-07-21 15:09:55
《移魂女郎》原作
2 有用 water 2013-06-24 20:18:17
再怎么批评性别歧视，最后还是靠男人救自己。BPD找个有钱老公就能治了么 = = 电影似乎有为了抓马曲解小说的嫌疑
1 有用 nikokolin 2010-10-03 09:08:51
Writing 105/ 2010 FALL
0 有用 Akaashi 2012-07-09 18:41:04
依然无解
1 有用 a little mark 2017-03-20 08:05:25
当然无法和the bell jar相比，但是短小好读。读的时候重新审视一下自己的madness, future and so on. 特别喜欢里面穿插着她在Mclean的case file:)