client Susanna Kaysen is a nineteen year old Caucasian woman who was born on November 11‚ 1948 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. She still currently resides in Cambridge at 17 Burlingham Road alone in a one bedroom apartment. She recently moved out on her own after being released from The Claymoore Mental Institution. The patient’s home phone number is (617) 234-0998. Currently Ms. Kaysen is a single woman and is not in any significant romantic relationship.Ms. Kaysen’s parents Carl and Annette Kaysen are
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novel Girl‚ Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. In her biography she writes about her time at McLean Hospital‚ a residential psychiatric facility in Massachusetts. She tells about the experiences she had there‚ the people that she met‚ and most importantly her diagnosis; Borderline Personality Disorder. Through reading her novel I was able to see what caused her diagnosis‚ the symptoms that she portrayed‚ and the treatment she received to have the status of recovered. Through out the novel‚ Susanna portrayed
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Girl‚ Interrupted Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric illness. People that are diagnosed with this disorder suffer from an intense pattern of affective instability‚ extreme difficulties in interpersonal relationships‚ problems with behavioral or impulse control‚ and disrupted cognitive processes. The estimated prevalence of BPD in the general adult population is about 2%‚ mostly affecting young women. Susanna Kaysen was born on November 11‚ 1948 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts
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It’s 1967‚ and a compulsive writer 17 year old girl named Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is like a lot of American teenagers of her age; confused‚ insecure‚ struggling to make sense of the rapidly changing world around her. But she had suicide intent‚ she mixed a bottle of aspirins with vodka‚ so pressed by her parents‚ she went to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist she meets with‚ however‚ gives to her behavior a name: Borderline Personality Disorder. This disorder is manifested by uncertainty about
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In Girl‚ Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen recounts her two year stay at a Boston psychiatric hospital and her experience of what she calls the "parallel universe" of madness‚ she makes the reader consider how thin the line is between ’madness’ and ’sanity’. Susanna describes herself as "sane in an insane world". It does seem like it may be an insane world when we look at how society reacts to something they do not understand‚ fear breeds prejudice‚ "possessed by the devil" "bad‚ and must be isolated
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In this stimulating true story‚ Kaysen speaks of her experience as an eighteen-year-old patient in a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960’s. "People ask‚ how did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can’t answer the real question. All I can tell them is‚ it’s easy" (pg. 5). The doctor who referred her diagnosed her with a borderline personality disorder within twenty minutes of interviewing her. The doctor also perceived her as
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The movie Girl interrupted is an interesting movie that delves into the psychology of multiple young girls in an in-house psychiatric facility. The two main characters in the movie are Susanna‚ played by Wynona Rider‚ and Lisa‚ played by Angelina Jolie. The movie is about the lives of the different girls who are in the in-patient facility and their particular disorders. The movie shows the patients going to where the files on each of them are kept and finding out what the psychiatrists had been writing
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this concept to Girl‚ Interrupted unveils that psychosocial moratorium is essential to finding his or hers’ identity. In Michel Foucault’s “Panopticon‚” discipline further shows what is vital in finding his or hers’ true identity. Through psychosocial moratorium and discipline is where someone will find his or hers’ identity. In two specific scenes from Girl‚ Interrupted does it exemplify where someone is helped with finding their identity. Superior figures try and guide Susanna to the discovery
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Girl‚ Interrupted: Borderline Personality Disorder Girl‚ Interrupted is a thought-provoking film that accounts the struggles of a teenage girl‚ Susanna‚ who is trying to come-to-terms with her illness in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital when she tried to commit suicide. The film portrays her relationships with her distant parents and intense relationships with other patients while she is hospitalized. She encounters many troubled
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The movie ‘Girl Interrupted’ is a story of a nineteen year old girl (Suzanna) in the 1960’s who‚ after being suspected of trying to commit suicide‚ gets sent away to the Mental Institution (Claymoore) for a short ‘resting period.’ Her psychiatrist had suggested to her that the affair with one of her parents’ friends‚ along with her misconception that chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka is anything other than a suicide attempt‚ could be signs that she may be suffering from ‘borderline
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