Girl Interrupted Family & Community in the Heart of the

in the Heart of the Stone

Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s

crude humor and competitive alpha males

she can hardly afford to be swept up in another

In this lyrical

Girl Interrupted Family & Community in the Heart of theIn 1967, after an appointment with an unfamiliar psychiatrist, eighteen year old Susanna Kaysen was escorted to McLean Hospital by taxi. There, she resided in the psychiatric facility's ward for adolescent girls, where she spent the majority of the next two years. The hospital was renowned not only for its cutting edge therapeutic techniques but also for its celebrity clientele, including the likes of Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray