Frances Farmer: The Road from Hollywood to the Department of Psychiatry.

She was a whole new lady. Perhaps too audacious for the 1940s, when all an actress needed was to be beautiful and compliant.
They referred to Frances Farmer as hysterical because she dared to be obstinate. They referred to her as naive because she dared to speak out and beg for more challenging roles. It was already too late for him to leave that planet when he wanted to. They started referring to her as “mad” at that point. Today, I doubt many people are familiar with Frances Farmer. She is still a woman who has disappeared into the past. There are fascinating tales from a different era hidden behind that dusty curtain, some of which are a hushed cry for assistance that we still need to hear now. But the actress’s name is well-known in the field of psychiatry. This is due to a number of factors. One of the key ones is that the psychological therapies this woman has received over the years are a product of a terrible, dark time in psychiatry. one in which oddly, women frequently became the most immediate victims…The author’s sister herself is the author of “Look Back in Love.” She detailed all the horrible ordeals the young actress had to through while spending years in various psychiatric institutions. Research from “Will There Really Be a Morning?” provides information on her personality, her family, and whether she indeed experienced paranoid…