"I would not be who I am if I hadn’t learned about madness, hadn’t made a study of it"

A conversation with Suzanne Scanlon, author of the memoir Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

CW: for topical discussion of attempted suicide and mental illness

In her new memoir, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen, Suzanne Scanlon recounts her own institutionalization in the 90s in New York, after a suicide attempt. But as Scanlon writes, “The best the word crazy can do is point to something on the surface, a symptom. It is not the story.”

Scanlo…