Psychiatric Crimes Fiction or Fact
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Psychiatric Crimes? Fiction or Fact?
Can strangers step into another person’s life and take over completely? Can they gain the legal right to dictate where that person will live, what medical treatment he will be given? Can they cause that person to be lost for years, or even a lifetime, in an abyss of mental hospitals and board and care facilities? Is it fiction or not?
San Diego, CA — In the Name of Help, a novel exposing psychiatric abuses, has been adapted to screenplay format and Hollywood has been notified.
When this happened with Kesey’s Cuckoo’s Nest in the 70’s, our society woke up to horrendous abuses that actually existed in the mental health system.
Will this happen today? Can truth again be told through fiction?
The story is a chilling exposé of the savage abuses of the mental health industry and the struggle of two friends who find they must right the wrongs of that powerful system.
Cathryn Silberg appears to have it all. She is the beautiful and intelligent daughter of wealthy Midwest parents but dark secrets lie beneath the surface. A spiral downward almost ends in an abyss of mind-altering drugs, physical and emotional abuses and barbaric electric shock treatments.
Cathryn has become a human pawn in a web woven by a corrupt system when Linda discovers Cathryn’s plight and has to find a way to overcome her own weaknesses in order to truly help another human being.
The author, Diane Klein, says: “I never felt compelled to write with the goal of publication, until I became motivated to tell the story, In the Name of Help, which has been said to deal the most formidable blow to the atrocities that exist in what we call our mental health system since Cuckoo’s Nest. I enjoy novels and films which offer entertainment and from which I may even learn something: knowledge of another time or place, insight into a particular personality or new awareness of an unknown issue. That’s what I hope my readers will find in this book and in my future novels.”
In the Name of Help, a novel, is available now through Amazon and through Laguna Coast Books. The time for this story has come. It may change our world.