- Girl, Interrupted written by James Mangold, Lisa Loomer, & Anna Hamilton Phelan, from the book by Susanna Kaysen. Daisy: Give me the Valium. Lisa: We don't need your daddy's money. Daisy: Then leave it there, just give me the fucking Valium. (She extends her hand to Lisa and Lisa grabs her arm and pulls up the sleeve of her robe to reveal a.
- Girl, Interrupted. Girl, Interrupted. After escaping from the mental hospital, Susanna & Lisa drop in on Daisy, who has recently been released from the institution. Thanks to Lisa, things turn bad pretty quickly. Listing Details. James Mangold & Lisa Loomer (screenplay), Susanna Kaysen (book) Era: 60s.
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Summary: Velocityvs. Viscosity
Kaysen believes that mental illness can be divided intotwo types: fast and slow. The slow type brings everything in a patient’smind to a crawl. Time seems to creep by, powers of observation andinsight are blunted, and even the body’s heart rate and immune system becomeweak. The fast sorts of illnesses greatly increase a patient’s velocity.Thinking speeds up immensely, torturing patients with a never-endingseries of internal arguments, questions, and investigations. Kaysendelineates the thought process of a person suffering from a “fast”illness. Images and memories accompany the smallest observation,and the patient is overwhelmed by a tidal wave of perception. YetKaysen believes that fast and slow illnesses can appear the sameto the casual onlooker, because both freeze up a patient’s abilityto act, one by inaction, the other by presenting too many optionsupon which to make a decision. Also, patients are aware that evenone small negative feeling can signal the beginning of a thoughtprocess that will culminate in overwhelming depression and self-loathing.Eventually, however, the repetition of these episodes dulls theirimpact. Kaysen suffers from both kinds of illness. She is neversure which is about to emerge.
Summary: SecurityScreen
Lisa makes a scene, demanding fresh air. She harassesthe nurses, banging on their door and threatening to call her lawyer.Valerie, the head nurse, agrees to open Lisa’s window, but Lisais dissatisfied. She taunts Valerie, imagining out loud what thehead nurse’s experience as a patient would be like. Just as quicklyas she began her tantrum, Lisa relents. Valerie is calm and ableto deflate Lisa’s angry moods. The nurse goes about the difficulttask of unlocking and forcing open Lisa’s heavy, barred window.She realizes that Lisa doesn’t intend to sit by the window but wasmerely creating a scene to entertain herself. “Hey man,” says Lisa,“it passes the time.” Valerie agrees that it does, indeed, passthe time.
Summary: Keepers
Kaysen describes Valerie, the head nurse. Valerie is young,with attractive, waist-length hair that intrigues the girls. Sheis firm but earns the girls’ trust because she stands up to boththem and the doctors. The patients meet with a doctor, a medicalresident, and a therapist each day. Kaysen and the others are distrustfulof the doctors and their psychiatric language, which Valerie doesn’tuse. The doctors are all men except for Dr. Wick. Dr. Wick is anold-fashioned character with a colonial British background and isquite unfamiliar with the culture that produced Kaysen and her fellowpatients. Dr. Wick is particularly uncomfortable with foul languageand sexual allusions. Kaysen describes her relationship with herhigh school English teacher to Dr. Wick, including in her storya crude, invented account of how she became sexually involved withher teacher. This embarrasses Dr. Wick. The student-doctors, orresidents, change often and have little familiarity with their patients’daily lives. Therapists, the girls’ third daily medical appointment,are primarily responsible for prescribing medication. The girlsdread the evening hours between the point at which Valerie and theday staff have left and the time at which the night staff comeson. During this time, Mrs. McWeeney supervises the ward. Mrs. McWeeneyis a nurse of the old school, with a traditional nurse’s uniformand the personality of “an undisguised prison matron.” Althoughthe girls detest Mrs. McWeeney, they feel protective of her in away, because she seems as crazy as they are. Student nurses alsoappear regularly on the ward. The nurses remind the girls of thelives they might be living beyond the walls of the hospital. Thegirls pretend not to be ill and dispense advice to the student nurses,who learn very little about psychiatric care as a result.
Summary: NineteenSixty-Eight
The world is in turmoil. Kaysen and the other patientswitness on television the unrest outside McLean Hospital. The warin Vietnam rages on, as do civil rights movements and anti-war struggles.The assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy shockthe girls as much as they do the rest of the nation, which is miredin university protests and civil disorder. The girls identify with theprotestors on the outside because they see their own anger acted outby others. The nurses relax as their patients’ behavior seems to becalmed by the actions they see on television. The girls slowly realizethat the world might not actually be changing for them, or indeedfor many of those fighting the battles in the streets. They watchas Bobby Seale, leader of the Black Panthers, is wheeled into acourtroom bound and gagged. His plight is not the same as theirs, thegirls think, because his cause is great and righteous and theirsis small and shameful.
Analysis
Kaysen attempts to explain the nature of mental illnessas she understands it with two simple analogies: viscosity and velocity.A viscous substance, like syrup, moves slowly and with great deliberateness. Velocityis defined in physics as the ratio of speed to time, and is a measureof movement. Kaysen distinguishes between “slow” and “fast” typesof illness, but the effect of each is the same: immobility. “Viscositycauses the stillness of disinclination,” she says, and “velocitycauses the stillness of fascination.” This “stillness” is a resultof either a profound inability to make decisions or an overabundanceof options that makes decision impossible.
When Lisa throws a tantrum, demanding that Valerie openher window, she offers a glimpse of what the monotony of confinement caninspire people to do. Lisa’s outburst arrives without warning, butthe scene is a familiar one. The girls are obliged to create whateverexcitement they can. Lisa’s favorite form of expression is to causea scene that invites the attention of the nursing staff. A telling momentarrives at the end of the chapter, when Valerie realizes that Lisa’santics have been pointless: she never cared whether the window wasopen or shut. Lisa offers a succinct explanation for her behaviorthat everyone on the ward can understand: “Hey man,” she says. “Itpasses the time.” Time is the girls’ greatest resource and mostoppressive captor. The best the girls can hope for is a diversion thatpasses the time.
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