Vera Stein

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Vera Stein (* 1958 in La Paz , Bolivia ) is a German author with the real name Waltraud Storck. As a resilient psychiatric victim, she gained international fame.

Life

From 1974 onwards, Vera Stein was detained for years in psychiatric institutions (University Clinic Frankfurt, Clinic Dr. Heines in Bremen) and treated with psychotropic drugs against her will and without adequate diagnosis . Apparently normal pubertal behavior and the long-term consequences of a polio infection were negligently misdiagnosed as hebephrenic schizophrenia . The family and especially the father were the driving force behind the many inpatient admissions between 1974 and 1979, even after the patient reached the age of majority. Vera Stein made several attempts to escape. As a result of the forced treatment with heavily overdosed psychotropic drugs, she is now dependent on a wheelchair and 100% unable to work.

In 1993 she wrote her first book about her psychiatric experiences under the pseudonym Vera Stein , four more followed.

"My case shows how it can happen to people who have been deprived of what is most valuable, namely their health, the additional burdens they have to defend themselves against in order to be able to lead a reasonably decent life despite their damage."

In 2005 she was successful with a lawsuit before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . Regarding her stay in the private clinic of Dr. Heines from July 29, 1977 to April 5, 1979 a violation of Article 5 Paragraph 1 (right to freedom and security) and Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life ) of the European Convention on Human Rights , for which the Federal Republic of Germany be responsible. At the instigation of her father, against her will and without a judicial order, she was placed in a closed ward of the clinic, after escaping on March 4, 1979, the police took her back there; the rejection of their claims for damages against the clinic in this regard by the judiciary did not take sufficient account of Article 5 and thereby also violated. The Federal Republic of Germany was sentenced to 75,000 euros in damages.

See also

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literature

  • With one's back to the wall. A guide - this is how I enforce my rights in medical liability proceedings! VAS Verlag for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-88864-479-5
  • Diagnosis "insane" . VAS Verlag for Academic Writings, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-88864-408-5
  • Nevertheless. You are not disabled - you are disabled . Schardt Verlag, Oldenburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89841-237-7
  • Worlds of absence: my ways through psychiatry . 3. Edition. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89308-380-0 , original 1996
  • Psychiatry human trap: locked away at the age of 14 - the courageous restart of a woman who was labeled 'insane' by doctors . Karl F. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8304-2030-7

Web links

  • Items. In: Weser Kurier , November 2, 1998; on psychiatrie-erfahrene.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The bad child . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 2005 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Peter Lehmann: "Everyone can protect themselves from coercive psychiatric measures" - In conversation with Vera Stein " . In: Psychosoziale Umschau (2012) (PDF)
  3. ↑ Destiny Psychiatry: How Psychiatrists Destroyed Vera Stein's Life . ARD , Kontraste , broadcast on December 6, 2001
  4. ↑ The Unloved Daughter . In: Focus , March 27, 2000
  5. ↑ Locked up in a nightmare . ( Memento of the original from November 26th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 4, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  6. ↑ Human rights: Heines-Klinik in sight . In: taz.de, January 10, 2005
  7. ↑ Judgment of June 16, 2005 (Application no. 61603/00) . British and Irish Legal Information Institute Portal
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Vera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Storck, Waltraud (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH La Paz , Bolivia