Madness, Philosophy and Literature: A Reading of Janet ...

Faces in the Water begins, she states: Although this book is written in documentary form it is a work of fiction. None of the characters, in cluding Estina Mavet, portrays a living person'.8 Peter Mack has ar gued: 'we should see the disclaimer as a therapeutic space (of doubtful authorship) at the edge of the text in which writers can undo the pur ................
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