Girl, Interrupted

First Vintage Books Edition, June 1994

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Turtle Bay Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1993.

Portions of this book, in slightly different form, appeared in Agni, The Boston Review, and Ploughshares.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to American Psychiatric Press for permission to reprint the entry for Borderline Personality Disorder from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised, Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Association, 1987. Reprinted by permission.

The author is grateful to the Artists Foundation of Massachusetts and the Corporation of Yaddo for their generosity.

Though this book is nonfiction, some of the names and distinguishing traits of patients, doctors, and staff have been changed.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948–
Girl, interrupted / Susanna Kaysen.—1st Vintage Books ed.
p.   cm.
Originally published: New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1993.
eISBN: 978-0-8041-5111-5
1. Kaysen, Susanna, 1948—Mental health. 2. Psychiatric hospital patients—Massachusetts—Biography. I. Title
RC464.K36A3   1994
616.89′ 0092—dc20
[B]            93-43339

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