Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Innsbruck (Institut f r Amerikastudien), course: On the Edge of Sanity: Mental Illness and Disordered Behavior in American Literature, language: English, abstract: In her autobiographical novel Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen deals with the probably most difficult and influential period in her life. At the end of the 1960s, when she was eighteen,...