苏珊娜·凯森

苏珊娜·凯森（Susanna Kaysen，1948年11月11日—）是一位美国作家。她一家都是犹太人，她的父亲是卡尔·凯森。凯森曾患有边缘型人格障碍并接受心理治疗。1993年，她根据这段经历写了一部回忆录，该书被改编成电影移魂女郎，女演员薇诺娜·瑞德在电影中饰演凯森。

Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948) is an American author, best known for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted.

Background

Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Annette (née Neutra) and economist Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Her family is Jewish.

Kaysen attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston, and the Cambridge School of Weston, before being sent to McLean Hospital in 1967 to undergo psychiatric treatment for clinical depression. While there, she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She was released after 18 months. She drew on this experience for her memoir Girl, Interrupted in 1993, which was adapted into a film in which she was portrayed by actress Winona Ryder.

Kaysen has one sister and is divorced. She lived for a time in the Faroe Islands, upon which experience her novel Far Afield is based.