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A Dubious Balance: Be Cool - Be Very Cool

by Dale Reno

176 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2493; ISBN 1-4120-4685-8; US$16.76, C$20.00, EUR14.00, £10.00

A Dubious Balance is a tour of the other side of the psychiatric divide. A psychiatrist said of the author's experience, "It doesn't happen that way." But it does.

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About the Book

In A Dubious Balance, the author, an American lawyer, recounts his experience trying to protect the interests of two clients, the one deemed schizophrenic, the other demented. He encounters a system which honors due process in the breach. Things are different for such as his clients; for such as him, too, as the reader will see. The book is straightforward nonfiction. Such mistakes that exist are not intentional. The names of three characters have been changed, for their sakes. The reader will see that and understand why. As for the rest, if people want to cavil, cavil away. The author did his best. This is his story; it's not perfect, but it is true.

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About the Author

Dale Reno is an attorney who represents people subject to psychiatric control. He came to the practice later in life, for reasons the book will make evident. He practices law under a different name.

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