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"Description This book is a verbatim account which lays bare for inspection the Kafkaesque reality of a young American's experience inside the modern British mental health care system. Combining the pathos and tragedy of Greek myth and the analytic dryness of textbook case study, it may be seen as a chronicle of a young man's heroic battle against arrest, incarceration, detention, enforced medication, and the infliction of extreme mental suffering within a medico-legal system devoid of fewer human rights than those accorded to anyone arrested under the Terrorism Act. Incorporating only original medical records and documents and reading like a fly-on-the-wall docudrama, it pushes the boundaries of ""confidentiality"" and discards the mantle of secrecy which has always clothed the profession of psychiatry, forcing us to re-examine our concept of ""mental illness"" and its ""treatment."" In the annals of psychiatry or modern literature, a detailed objective account of this kind, revealing what really happens to someone caught in the web of the mental health care system has heretofore neither been written nor published for general readership. This book should be of interest not only to students of psychiatry, psychiatrists, mental health professionals, mental health service users and all people who are affected by or question the practice of modern psychiatry and mental health care, but also to a wider general public."

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