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Polly, who had set herself on fire, realizes she is trapped inside her scarred skin.
FireLisa Rowe humiliates and tortures Lisa Cody, who runs away and becomes a junkie.
Another LisaTorrey is forcibly returned to her abusive family; Susanna suffers a mental breakdown.
Bare BonesAlice suffers a mental breakdown and is moved to the maximum security ward.
Calais is Engraved in My HeartSusanna begins therapy with Melvin and discovers tunnels underneath the hospital.
The Shadow of the RealSusanna accepts a marriage proposal and is released from McLean.
Topography of the FutureSusanna runs into Georgina and Lisa Rowe.
Further On, Down the Road, You Will Accompany Me| Section | Summary |
|---|---|
| Toward A Topography of the Parallel Universe | Girl, Interrupted begins with an image of the author's actual case record, which introduces the personal background of t... Read More |
| The Taxi | Susanna starts narrating the day she signs herself into the hospital at a psychiatrist's office. He remarks that she is ... Read More |
| Etiology | The field of etiology, from which this chapter takes its name, is the study of what causes diseases. The chapter offers ... Read More |
| Fire | Polly is an inmate on the psychiatric ward who set herself on fire. Susanna notices that her scars do not change with ti... Read More |
| Freedom | Lisa Rowe is a frequent runaway. Usually, she is picked up and quickly returned, but this time it takes a while. When sh... Read More |
| The Secret of Life | When Susanna learns that she has a male visitor, she figures it's not her boyfriend, her father, or her English teacher.... Read More |
| Politics | Georgina's boyfriend, Wade, also a mental patient, claims that his father is a CIA agent and a veteran of the Bay of Pig... Read More |
| If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now | Daisy is not a permanent resident at McLean. She comes around the holidays and always gets a single room. Daisy is ill-t... Read More |
| My Suicide | Contemplating her own suicide attempt with an overdose of aspirin, Susanna describes the preparation necessary to kill o... Read More |
| Elementary Topography | Susanna feels betrayed by the doctor who has sent her to the psychiatric hospital after having talked to her for no more... Read More |
| Applied Topography | Susanna compares the psychiatric hospital to a prison. Visitors have to enter through a series of locked doors to reach ... Read More |
| The Prelude to Ice Cream | Susanna mentions other famous inmates of McLean, all of them famous songwriters and poets, such as Ray Charles, James Ta... Read More |
| Ice Cream | Shortly after Daisy's suicide, the girls, accompanied by more nurses than usual, are taken into town for ice cream. Susa... Read More |
| Checks | The nurses check on the girls in regular intervals of 5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes, depending on the status of the patient's... Read More |
| Sharps | The girls are not allowed to possess objects that could possibly be used as weapons against others or themselves. Everyd... Read More |
| Another Lisa | A new patient, also called Lisa, arrives. They call her by her full name, Lisa Cody, to show deference to and distinguis... Read More |
| Checkmate | A nurse's note reveals that Susanna's male visitor was caught with his zipper open, and the girls discuss how difficult ... Read More |
| Do You Believe Him or Me? | The doctor who suggested that Susanna sign herself into the mental ward claims that he spoke to her for three hours. Sus... Read More |
| Velocity vs. Viscosity | Susanna classifies the effects of insanity into two categories: slow and fast. Either the patient's thought processes sl... Read More |
| Security Screen | Lisa Rowe demands fresh air and challenges Valerie, the head nurse, to open the window in her room. This task requires o... Read More |
| Keepers | Susanna describes the staff on the girls' ward. Valerie is young, has beautiful hair, and is flexible and nimble enough ... Read More |
| Nineteen Sixty-Eight | The girls watch reports of the death of civil right leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy on tele... Read More |
| Bare Bones | Susanna describes the mental ward at McLean as both a prison and a refuge. The girls have no freedom or privileges, but ... Read More |
| Dental Health | Susanna develops an abscess in her wisdom tooth. The dentist wants to take it out, but Susanna refuses. Valerie agrees, ... Read More |
| Calais is Engraved in My Heart | The arrival of a new inmate, Alice Calais, prompts a disagreement over the pronunciation of her last name. Is it "Callou... Read More |
| The Shadow of the Real | Susanna's therapist has died, and Susanna is sad because she enjoyed her sessions with him. She realizes he tricked her ... Read More |
| Stigmatography | Susanna takes a leap in time to discuss her future after McLean. She says in job applications she made while still at th... Read More |
| New Frontiers in Dental Health | After almost two years at McLean, Susanna is about to leave. Reminiscing about her former one-week job as a typist, she ... Read More |
| Topography of the Future | Susanna recalls how she met her future husband at the movies before she was hospitalized. He tracks her down and stays l... Read More |
| Mind versus Brain | Susanna contemplates the difference between "brain" and "mind," wondering what it is that creates consciousness from the... Read More |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | Quoting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition (known as DSM-III), Susanna describes t... Read More |
| My Diagnosis | Susanna accepts that her diagnosis was accurate for her self at age 18, yet she rejects what she calls "the charges agai... Read More |
| Further On, Down the Road, You Will Accompany Me | Susanna meets two of her former fellow patients years later. Georgina comes to visit, treating Susanna's neighbor impoli... Read More |
| Girl, Interrupted | Susanna describes her first visit to the Frick collection in New York with her English teacher. Back then, when she appr... Read More |
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