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Kathi Stringer  

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Welcome! A Message from Kathi Stringer:

This website has thousands of pages full of information. I write extensively about Borderline Personality Disorder, Psychology, Regression, Patient Rights, 5150, and Infantilism. I've researched and published articles since 1996. (Many of my articles have been republished on other websites). I believe education is key toward a win-win between professionals and clients. Combined with experience and objectivity, I've walked the walk, and talked the talk. I've been there! God, have I ever been there!  Check out the Child Survivor Group and the Free Mental Health (BPD) Newsletter.

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The Book, "5150 - One Who Flew Into The Cuckoo's Nest"  written by Kathi Stringer  Click this link for more information.

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Pat Risser writes in his review of 5150: A true story about a woman caught in a life or death struggle with a psychiatrist whose ego feels he must defeat her at all costs. The psychiatrist forgets all about healing and enters into combat with the patient -- it's his will versus hers. The battle scenes are vividly captured through Kathi's eyes as well as through the chart notes that reveal the terrifying specter of the thoughts of the staff as they try to force their will upon Kathi.

Kathi sought healing and instead found a system corrupt with ego, force, coercion and just plain insanity. Cuckoo's Nest had Nurse Ratched and 5150 has it's Dr. Mason. Both are frightening but Ratched is fiction. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the oppression of the psychiatric system and the egos that drive that oppression. Thank god Kathi survived to tell the story. Click this link for more information.

Sam Vaknin Ph.D. writes in his review of 5150: I finished reading the book last night at 03:12 AM. I could not let go of it. I could not close my laptop. I went out to meet some friends but hurried back. This time it's a winner: taut, tense prose; a plot as captivating as any thriller's; a real-life story that reads like a nightmare and that ends in personal redemption. Couched in a lean and muscular text, all the important themes are here: self-discovery, one against the many, iconoclastic rebel faces down the system, justice for all, mental illness as a mechanism for social coercion. What a ride! What a treat! Brilliant.

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"Psych 101 -
What You Didn't Learn In Nursing School."
By Kathi Stringer

After writing the book "5150," I published "Psych 101."  This book is a compilation of all the essays I've written over the years  I was treated so badly that I wondered what nursing staff was learning in school. I read everything the local college had to offer on psychiatric nursing, and I thought, “They sure didn’t treat me this way.” I decided to dive into a higher level of learning and studied books from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and from Aaronson Publishing. This book is a compilation of my essays over the years and was created from therapeutic models that resonate with actual experience. Also, this book is useful for individuals that want to learn about developmental psychology to understand human behavior. Much of my writings were extracted from the work of Glenn O. Gabbard, Margaret Mahler and Sam Vaknin. Building a therapeutic alliance is imperative to get treatment compliance. This book looks not only at etiology and symptoms in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), but also treatment modalities.

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More NEWS!

Paul Cumming Wins NAMI 2009 Consumer of the Year Award
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Kathi's Mental Health Review & Paul Cumming at SAMHSA 2009



Riverside County Regional Medical Center wins NAMI California’s 2009 Zero Tolerance of Seclusion & Restraint Award - Click on picture for more details