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While the happy ending thus has complications and uncertainties,I nonetheless have a strong desire for it. Be it sentimental, or beit a need to focus Anna’s agency, her efforts and struggle to makeher own life, and to convey some of the incredible courage thather record also conveys: whatever, I need it. I need that ending towhat otherwise would be unbearably tragic; I need that glimmerof hope in what seems to be the very dark pain and struggle ofpsychiatric patients and of the mentally ill. Perhaps it is this painand looming darkness that for so long have prevented the historyof lobotomy from being written.One flew over the cuckoo’s nest, then no more.All translations of medical journals by the author.ReferencesBerlant, L. (1997), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays onSex and Citizenship (Durham & London: Duke University Press).Braslow, J. (1997) Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in theFirst Half of the Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press),152–68.Pressman, Jack D. (1998), Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits ofMedicine (New York: Cambridge University Press)Mattsson, K. & Pettersson, K. (2007) ‘Crowning Miss Sweden: NationalConstructions of White Femininity’, NORA: Nordic Journal of Women’sStudies, 15:4, 233–45.Nilsson, U. (2007) ‘Steriliserad, kastrerad, lobotomerad – om medicinhistoriaoch intersektionalitet’, in Nobel Museum Occasional Papers, No. 4, 55–89.Probyn, E. (2004) ‘Everyday Shame’, Cultural Studies, Vol. 18, 2-3, 328–49.Vaczy Kragh, J. (2007), Det hvide snit: Psykokirurgi og dansk psykiatri 1922–1983 [The White Cut: Psychosurgery and Danish Psychiatry 1922–1983],Copenhagen University, Medicinsk Museion), 217–20.Ögren, K. (2005), The Surgical Offensives against Mental Disorder:62