In the Name of Help: A Novel Exposing Psychiatric Abuse (Paperback)

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...has the loud ring of truth about psychiatric atrocities which are continuing today in virtually every 'mental health' facility... -- Don Weitz, Radio Producer and Co-editor of Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada

...one of the most important stories of our time. It could have happened to anyone. -- Barbara Ayash, International Woman of the Year, International Freedom Medal Winner

Author Diane Klein has written a riveting first novel no 'sane' person could put down. -- James Clayton, American Entertainment Network

Product Description

Cathryn Silberg knew that her marriage was doomed. But as she seeks help, she finds herself betrayed by the very people who claim to have her best interests at heart. Trapped by the mental health system and the courts, she finds she is no longer struggling to save a marriage, -- now she must save her own life!

IN THE NAME OF HELP is a gripping story, chilling in its insight into the sinister motivations that can drive our social institutions. Before you, or anyone you know seek professional help, you must read this book!

IN THE NAME OF HELP is the startling story of a woman caught in the mindless, uncaring snarl of America's mental health and judicial systems, and how, with real help from two caring friends, she fights her way back to reclaim her dignity and self-respect, from an institutional insanity that cruelly only promised to do something for her. After you read this book, you'll pray that this never happens to you or anyone you love.

IN THE NAME OF HELP is about a once beautiful and intelligent woman, whose marriage evolves into a kind of fatal attraction, then she suffers years of abusive and ultimately destructive psychiatric treatment, finally becoming totally dependent on those around her for her safety and survival. This, in spite of enormous wealth that is due her.

Through a series of medical and judicial actions, which are revelatory of some startling sore spots in our current society, she finds herself at the mercy of uncaring strangers, despite efforts of her friends to remove her and prevent her from further damaging treatments, and manipulation for monetary gain. This is a story of intrigue, a battle between the forces of good and evil, and a strong tale of love. It is shocking and powerful.

Not since Ken Kesey's, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in 1962, has a novel dealt such a formidable blow to the atrocities that exist in what we call our mental health system.

Not in the past three decades has a story dealt more straightforwardly with the criminal practices of administering electric shock treatments, which cause severe, irreversible brain damage, and treatment with psychotropic substances, which though they are called medications, alter brain chemistry, function and structure and can have devastating effects on the central nervous system.

These things are happening every day, especially to our children and our elderly; the practitioners and advocates of these actions are reaping enormous financial profits.

IN THE NAME OF HELP is one story of how these things can happen in our society, and what two decent people decided to do about these crimes.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Laguna Coast Books (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967855209
• ISBN-13: 978-0967855202
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,026,859 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wake-up call to a "Free Country", July 19, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: In the Name of Help (Paperback)

If you think you live in a free country where you are free to do as you please as long as you hurt no one, read this book! Diane Klein does a superb job of demonstrating Psychiatry's role in the prostitution of our Justice system. It clearly shows how profit and political gain motives are used for incarceration in psychiatric institutions -- in the name of help. Had I not had to excersise considerable effort to pull my mother out of one after a "nurse" working on commission put her in there, I might have not believed it... Ms. Klein's book, however, goes beyond exposing and documenting abuse potential. It puts the "which came first, the mental illness or the psychiatric drug?" question into proper perspective and leads to the inescapable conclusion in the majority of cases: "The drug!" The book also explores relationships and the potential of a determined person who is acting with genuine interest to help. By the end of the book, you can be sure that there is hope, there is help and YOU can do something about it. Gary Baren

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A compelling novel of modern psychiatric abuse, June 16, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: In the Name of Help (Paperback)

"In the Name of Help" is a compelling story of greed and corruption perpetrated under the guise of mental treatment.

It chronicles the life of Cathryn Solberg Kent, a once-beautiful woman who is dominated by an abusive husband and who then, after many electric shock treatments and two decades of addiction to psychiatric drugs, is caught in the web of a corrupt and uncaring judicial system.

Cathryn's life is taken over by a complete stranger who becomes her legal conservator and she is forced into living under demeaning conditions and subjected to further medication against her will.

She is fortunate however to have two college friends, Nick and Linda, who become aware of her plight and join together to help their friend recover her dignity.

As Nick and Linda uncover the trail of deceit and corruption which allowed Cathryn to lose all control over her life and person, unable to make even the most basic decisions in her life, they also discover their own love for each as their relationship matures into a romance based on honesty and trust.

Well researched and written from the heart, this novel opens our eyes to the common psychiatric abuses happening in our communities all across this country, yet ignored by the media. It is time that we woke up to the shameful treatment which so many fall victim to in this age of psychiatric drugs and uncaring laws.

This story is touching, tragic, and yet gives us hope for the future. It shows us how we can have hope for the future, and how decent people can prevail in the face of criminal "help".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Book, October 6, 2003

By	Jillian(Tigerspaz) (Cali, USA) - See all my reviews

Hey,
I actually know the author, she is very awesome. She told me how much she she had to work and research to get the correct information and data.
I thought that it was very true in a very frightening way. I think everyone should know of the evil the pshciatrists are spreading around, saying they are 'helping' people. Diane Klein does just that and I commend her for sticking a foot out to the wolves to get the truth out to the rest of us.