英語NF精神医学「Girl, Interrupted/思春期病棟の少女たち」Susanna Kaysen著 Vintage 1993年 171頁 US$12.95 0.21㎏ 20.2×13×1.3㎝ Paperback

【裏表紙より内容紹介】In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele?Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles?as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
【草思社文庫日訳書「思春期病棟の少女たち」より日訳書より内容紹介】18歳のわたしは「境界性人格障害」と診断され、精神病院に入れられた。そこでは同世代の少女たちが病んだ心を抱え、入院生活を送っていた。ほとんど食べず眠らないリサ、自分に火をつけたポリー、クリスマスと誕生日だけ入院するデイジー…青春の一時期を閉ざされた病棟で過ごした著者の回想記。思春期の狂気と正気の危うい境界をとらえ、絶賛を浴びて全米ベストセラーとなった作。映画『17歳のカルテ』の原作。
【著者について】Susanna Kaysen has written the novels Asa, As I Knew Him and Far Afield and the memoirs Girl, Interrupted and The Camera My Mother Gave Me. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.