Bedlam's Door: True Tales of Madness and Hope

Why would a Hungarian man run down a Manhattan street ranting "I'm king of the Puerto Ricans"? What made a physically healthy woman persuade surgeons to operate on her more than a dozen times? How could a man in a straitjacket commit suicide while in a strictly supervised, locked psychiatric ward?

Though these and the other stories in this book read like fiction, each is true.

Former practicing psychiatrist Mark Rubinstein takes readers deep into the world of mental illness. From the chaos ...