Girl Interrupted at her Music
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Girl Interrupted at her Music is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer
. It was painted in the baroque style between the years 1660 and 1661, using oil on canvas.
's memoir about her stay at McLean Hospital
for psychiatric treatment, Girl, Interrupted
and it was an integral part of Kaysen's mental recovery and understanding.
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime...
. It was painted in the baroque style between the years 1660 and 1661, using oil on canvas.
Girl, Interrupted
The painting was the inspiration for the title of Susanna KaysenSusanna Kaysen
-Life:Susanna Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of economist Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and his wife Annette Neutra Kaysen. Kaysen has one sister and is divorced...
's memoir about her stay at McLean Hospital
McLean Hospital
McLean Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and ground-breaking neuroscience research...
for psychiatric treatment, Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder...
and it was an integral part of Kaysen's mental recovery and understanding.