Girl, Interrupted is a memoir of an...

Girl, Interrupted is a memoir of an eighteen-year-old's internment in McLean Hospital as a "borderline." Like Prozac Nation, this memoir points toward a critique of "bad" psychotherapy and of the institutions that check the decisions regarding mental health. Unlike Wurtzel however, Kaysen does not appear to universalize her experience; "bad" therapy is an unfortunate particular end not another polemical condemnation of the practice or theory of psychoanalysis in general. Also in habitual with Wurtzel's book is the curious absence of a personal