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WORLDWIDE RELEASE - SEPT 16TH, 2014
A darker twist on Orange is the New Black, this true insider's account delivers an eye-opening look into the nation’s largest state-run forensic hospital, a facility that houses the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world.
Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California’s Napa State Hospital, known locally as “Gomorrah,” but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates, a triple sally port behind the twenty-foot walls topped with shining coils of razor wire. Napa State Hospital is one of the nation’s largest forensic mental hospitals, dedicated to treating the criminally insane. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, was reserved for the “bad actors,” the mass murderers, serial killers, and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world.
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AUTHOR STEPHEN SEAGER'S BOOKS
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah
Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California's Gorman State hospital, known locally as "Gomorrah," but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates, a triple sally port behind the twenty-foot walls topped with shining coils of razor wire. Gorman State is one of the nation's largest forensic mental hospitals, dedicated to treating the criminally insane. Unit C, where Dr. Seager was assigned, was reserved for the "bad actors," the mass murderers, and the serial killers.
Against a backdrop of surreal beauty--a verdant campus-like setting where peacocks strolled the grounds--is a place of remarkable violence, a place where a small staff of clinicians are expected to manage a volatile population of prison-hardened ex-cons, where lone therapists lead sharing circles with sociopaths, where an illicit underground economy flourishes, and where patients and physicians often measure their lives according to how fast they can run. To cross through the gates of Gomorrah is to enter a looking-glass world, where the trappings of the normal calendar year exist--Halloween dances and Christmas parties (complete with visits from Santa), springtime softball teams and basketball leagues, but marked with paroxysms of brutality (Santa goes berserk), and peopled by figures from our nightmares.
"Behind the Gates of Gomorrah" affords an eye-opening look inside a facility to which few people have ever had access. Honest, rueful, and at times darkly funny, Seager's gripping account of his rookie year blends memoir with a narrative science, explaining both the aberrant mind and his own, at times incomprehensible, determination to remain in a job with a perilously steep learning curve.
NEW RELEASE BY DR. STEPHEN SEAGER, M.D.
Street Crazy
Recounts one psychiatrist's experience with the mentally ill, who have often become homeless because of their disease. By following Dr. Seager as he unravels the mystery behind John Doe, a sick young man brought to the hospital by the police, the reader will come to understand the degradation and suffering of the chronically mentally ill and their families, as well as the frustration and confusion experienced by those most intimately involved with caring for the homeless mentally ill.
PSYCH WARD
After eight years of running a metropolitan emergency trauma center, Dr. Stephen Seager burned out. He quit to return to the bottom of the medical totem pole, to become an intern once more and train for a gentle new specialty: psychiatry. At age thirty-eight, Dr. Seager closed the steel door to the city hospital and stepped into a new life. This is the story of that first year, the lessons he learned and the people who were his teachers.
Street Crazy
Recounts one psychiatrist's experience with the mentally ill, who have often become homeless because of their disease. By following Dr. Seager as he unravels the mystery behind John Doe, a sick young man brought to the hospital by the police, the reader will come to understand the degradation and suffering of the chronically mentally ill and their families, as well as the frustration and confusion experienced by those most intimately involved with caring for the homeless mentally ill.
PSYCH WARD
Breathe, Little Boy, Breathe!: An Emergency Room Doctor's Story by Stephen B. Seager (Aug 1981)
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