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INSANITY, INC. -- "the SNAKE PIT of the nineties!"

Bob Moore
Talk-Show Host, WQBQ
Leesburg, FL
November, 1996

"......this novel is a REAL-LIFE HORROR STORY not told by Stephen King. And people need to pay close attention to any truth offered about (our State's) institutions. Carolyn McKinnon is a good, concerned writer and citizen and has provided (her state) and fellow citizens with some important information during this mental-health-care crisis".

Sanford Phippen, Reviewer/Editor for Stephen King
Bangor Daily News, Bangor, ME
March 9-10, 1996

"I applaud both McKinnon and Phippen; if we are unwilling to face the worst that exists in how society cares for the powerless, how will we ever eliminate the abuses?"

Julie Zimmerman, President
Audenreed Press, Div.of Biddle Publishing Co.,
Brunswick, ME
Bangor Daily News
Bangor, Me
March 28, 1996

"Your unique insights into the conditions of mental health facilities are truly moving and thought-provoking. Your story will stay with me as I continue to fight for the changes we so desperately need.

Tipper Gore
Wife of Vice President Al Gore

"I was grabbed from the first page of your story where you talked about the institution being 'removed from the world'".

Jim Crocker
Television Station WCSH
Portland ME

"This good hard-cover book will edify you and give you insight into this billion-dollar industry".

Stan Solomon
Stan Solomon Productions
Indianapolis, IN

"It is truly a wonderful book".

Michelle Bonner
Television Station WVII
Bangor, ME

"This Murder Mystery is an attack by an insider, on the BIG BUSINESS of treating minds, in which "experts" are helped to help themselves, at the expense of the mentally afflicted and the tax payer, and the pursuit of dollars (not concern for the mentally ill) has turned the mental-health-care system into a fruitful, billion-dollar industry in which the mentally ill are merely the pawns.

CAROLYN MCKINNON is a registered nurse who has worked in the mental-health-care arena for over a decade. INSANITY, INC. is the result of her commitment to arouse public awareness and conscience with regard to the extreme vulnerability of the mentally ill who are preyed upon, exploited and mistreated by profiteering "experts" who are drawn to this fruitful industry by a desire to make money.

McKinnon was appalled and outraged at the injustices that she witnessed:

Patients becoming bedfast and subsequently incontinent because there was not enough ward staff to ambulate them or take them to the bathroom

Patients having food literally shoved in their mouths because there was not sufficient staff to feed them properly

"Good", working patients being frightened out of leaving a ward when a better opportunity presented itself - and not being addressed

Absentee "experts" spending their time and energy scheming and plotting to overtake each other, (rather than interacting with patients) or writing grants supposedly to fund "programs", for which they received hundreds of thousands of unaccountable public dollars

"Programs" which were nothing more than paper exercises

"Programs" in which patients were denied "tokens" needed to purchase necessities such as food and mattresses, for not "exhibiting acceptable behavior" - "therapy" which, if implemented in a general hospital, would result in at least terminations, if not jail time

McKinnon is no longer involved in mental-health nursing. After becoming vocal at the institution where she last worked, she found herself being shunned by those in power. She was no longer invited to meetings, and her superior put the word out that she was parenoid and neurotic, when she chastised him for not bothering to address injustices that she was reporting to him. Gradually her duties were reassigned to others until she finally was relieved of all of her responsibilities. She currently is the director of a child-care center in her community.