“The prison of my past is a recurring dream inhabited by people and places I do not wish to remember. The psychiatrist I do not want to remember because I believed, trusted and almost worshipped her. I was a child believing in Santa Clause and lost my innocence and beliefs, but the guilt and pain still gnaws at me.”
Beyond Your Cornfield is inspired by the author’s personal experiences with electroshock and drug therapies during the 1960s through to the 1990s.The treatments did not cure her
The treatments did not cure her depression but devastated her family life and destroyed much of her memory.
In later life she discovered the extent of her loss when the enormous voids in her memory are filled in by people around her. As a result, she learns she is being exploited by a man who raped her when she was a young woman.
