Links

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/persdisorders.html
-This website is a general psychology website on personality disorders. It explains what the Cluster A, B, and C consist of. It explains all the different types of disorders and the effects of each.


"http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1527890/psychological_analysis_of_girl_interrupted.html?cat=72"
-This website is a psychological analysis of the book we are reading. It explains the main character and her disorder. It also explains the other characters and what they have also.

"http://www.queendom.com/advices/advice.htm?advice=283"
-This website is a girl asking a question about how her dad is a borderline sociopath. It is a therapy help website and people can ask questions and the health professionals answer. It is powered by Psychology Today.


http://www.mcleanhospital.org/
- This is the direct website to the McLean Hospital website. It has information about the patient care and education of the hospital. The girls in the book live in the McLean Hospital in Cambridge.

http://borderlinepersonality.ca/ginterrupt.htm
- This is a website for a review of the movie, Girl Interrupted. The book was made into a movie and this reviews both the movie and the book.

http://similarminds.com/cgi-bin/newpd.pl
- This is a website where you take a personality test to see how you really feel about life and yourself. Many people who have been in a institution have taken tests such as these.

http://www.psyke.org/bookstore/biography/
-This website is a biography on the author and her four books, Skin Game, Prozac Nation, Wasted, Girl, Interrupted.

http://www.exploringwomanhood.com/interviews/kaysen.htm
This is a written interview of the author, Susanna Kaysen, and exploring womanhood.com

http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
This is a website where it outlines the profile of a sociopath. It has the DSM-IV definition and overview of the disorder.

http://sociopathx.com/
-This website describes the relationships, traits, symptoms, and etc of a sociopath.

http://www.mediacircus.net/girlinterrupted.html
- This website is another movie review of Girl Interrupted, but it also compares the novel to another novel we read in class, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/000839.html
- This is a list of the top 10 psychiatric mental hospitals, mcLean being number 4.

http://www.besthealthmag.ca/embrace-life/mental-health/quiz-are-you-happy
-This website is a happy quiz, the girls sometimes would take tests like this.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/cutting.html
- This is website is about teens who cut their wrists and how they can be helped.

http://www.medicinenet.com/anorexia_nervosa/article.htm
-This website is about anorexia and its causes. Many of the girls have anorexia in the novel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0hecDCmY0
-This is a real girl's story of her life and suffering borderline personality disorder.

http://www.experienceproject.com/groups/Have-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/1960
- This is a support group website for people with borderline personality disorder, people discuss their stories and experiences.

http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Self-Injury/forum/4698338-wrist-banging-may-trigger
-This website is about wrist banging, this is another version of cutting your wrists except banging. Susanna does this in the novel.

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Borderline-Personality-Disorder/Effects-on-Children-When-Untreated-Mother-Has-Disorder/show/505283
-This website is about the effects of children who's mother has untreated borderline personality disorder. Although she was treated and had a child, this is for people who were untreated.

http://unputdownables.net/2011/04/11/girl-interrupted-by-susanna-kaysen/
-This is another overview of the author and her book. IT discusses the novel and the movie.