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Dorothea Buck’s Memoir Tells of the Horrors of Twentieth Century Psychiatry: A “Hell Amidst Bible Quotes”

Mad in America

I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Buck, who lived to the age of 102, fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform. Buck also demanded recognition of the Nazi murders of the disabled and the mentally ill.