Walking Inside Ourselves – An Appreciation of The Lagoon by Janet Frame
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“My writing saved me” – Janet Frame In 1951, following a diagnosis of schizophrenia, Janet Frame was admitted to a mental hospital. In an era before the development of psychotherapeutic medication there were few treatments available for patients suffering from severe mental illness. One “cure” did exist, however: the transorbital lobotomy. To perform a transorbital
