Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen. In the book, Kaysen relates her experiences as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music. While writing the novel Far Afield, Kaysen began to recall her almost two years at McLean Hospital.