Susanna Kaysen

Information about Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen (born 11 November 1948) is an American author.

Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kaysen attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston and the Cambridge School before being sent to McLean Hospital in 1967 to undergo psychiatric treatment for depression. It was there she learned she had borderline personality disorder. She was released after eighteen months. She later drew on this experience for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted, which was made into a film in 1999, her role being played by Winona Ryder.

She is the daughter of the economist Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Mother, deceased, was sister of architect Richard Neutra. Kaysen also has one sister and has been divorced at least once. Lived for a time in the Faroe Islands, upon which experience her novel, "Far Afield" is based.

Literary works

Asa, As I Knew Him, 1987
Far Afield, 1990
Girl, Interrupted, 1993
Camera My Mother Gave Me, 2001

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Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII
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"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
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Country United States
State Massachusetts
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Commonwealth School is a small independent high school of about 145 students located on Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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McLean Hospital (pronounced 'Mc-Lane') is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and ground-breaking neuroscience research.
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Psychotherapy is an interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid s in problems of living. This usually includes increasing individual sense of well-being and reducing subjective discomforting experience.
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Depression
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ICD-10 F 32. , F 33.
ICD-9 296

OMIM 608516
DiseasesDB 3589
MedlinePlus 003213
eMedicine med/532

Clinical depression (also called major-depressive disorder, or
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Borderline personality disorder
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ICD-10 F60.30 Impulsive type, F60.31 Borderline type
ICD-9 301.83

Borderline Personality Disorder (DSM-IV Personality Disorders 301.
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Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted paperback cover
Author Susanna Kaysen
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Memoir
Publisher Turtle Bay Books
Publication date 1993
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Winona Ryder

Birth name Winona Laura Horowitz
Born September 29 1971 (age 36)
Olmsted County, Minnesota, U.S.A.
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Carl Kaysen (born March 5 1920 in Philadelphia) is an economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the father of Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen.

Educational background

Dr. Kaysen did his B.A.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments,^[3]
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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