Debunking Myths: SHEDDING LIGHT ON SHADOWLAND

I found this link on the board for the false biography Frances (1982). She was never lobotomized.

https://jeffreymichaelkauffman.com/frances-farmer/shedding-light-on-shadowland/

Like many interested in Frances’ story, I long thought Shadowland was the definitive account of Frances Farmer’s life. However, as I did extensive research through the years, I slowly began to notice mistakes and discrepancies in William Arnold’s account, ultimately leading me to doubt a great deal of what he wrote. It made me begin to wonder whether, for whatever reason, Mr. Arnold had an agenda in writing Shadowland, including but not limited to his sensational allegation that Frances Farmer was lobotomized. While Mr. Arnold is to be commended for bringing the horrors of the Freeman transorbital lobotomy procedure to the modern masses (it was quite a well-known procedure in its day, as will be shown), his major hypothesis of a ‘vast right wing conspiracy’ leading to a lobotomy is simply not supported by any facts, certainly not in his book, which steadfastly avoids citing sources while at the same time repeatedly making unsubstantiated claims. As will be discussed below, Frances’ sister was convinced Arnold’s account was a deliberate misrepresentation, part of a Scientology effort to reveal the supposed “horrors” of psychiatry.