In 1967 after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi & sent to Mc Lean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele
- Sylvia Plath Robert Lowell James Taylor & Ray Charles. A clear-sighted unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane & insane Kaysen's extraordinary memoir encompasses horror & razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients & their keepers.