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The Camera My Mother Gave Me

Pages
176
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

Susanna Kaysen recounts her often comic and sometimes surreal experiences with various medical professionals, including internists, gynecologists, and alternative health experts. Her journey begins when she inexplicably develops a problem with her vagina. This memoir explores her encounters with doctors, her boyfriend, and her friends as she navigates this perplexing health issue.

About the author

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Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kaysen attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston and the Cambridge School before being sent to McLean Hospital in 1967 to undergo psychiatric treatment for depression. It was there she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She was released after eighteen months. She later drew on this experience for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted, which was made into a film in 1999.