I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love

by Doreen R. Orion

Book Overview

Locked in a ward of an Arizona psychiatric hospital, the patient called Fran looked harmless, even ordinary.??Meeting her, psychiatrist Doreen Orion had no warning that Fran suffered from erotomania,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044022599X
• ISBN13: 9780440225997
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Horrifying yet Relevant

I read this book shortly after publication and was horrified. I thought only people in the media were exposed to stalkers but this book proves that's not true. Virtually anyone can be a victim of stalking. The author covered the process of involving local law enforcement officials and the court system - all long and aruduous - and gives a clear picture at what price to achieve personal safety. Really everyone should read this book for an eye opening education.

Riveting Read, Crucial Information

This book blew me away. It is full of important information, not just for stalking victims, but for potential victims as well (ie all of us). But, more than that, this true story reads better than any fiction thriller out there. A friend who had been stalked, and found this book priceless, lent it to me. I could see why it had been so important to her, but even though I had never been stalked, I still found it to be a great read. One more comment - I read the review below - Dr. Orion's husband was NOT her clinical supervisor. They were just in the same residency program. I'm not sure where this person got that erroneous info, but I just wanted to set that straight, as it would certainly effect the story if it were true, and I might not have read the book if I'd read that review, first.

Not just frightening for women!

As a male Sophomore in college reading this book I was thoroghly terrified! It is noted that this does not just happen to women, but to men as well. Many times after reading this book was I looking around my car before getting into it, just making sure Fran Nightingale wasn't lurking behind it! Genuinly frightening (moreso because its a true story) read for either gender!

I must read this again!

I applaude Dr. Orion's courage in writing this book. Her personal eight year experience with her stalker, police departments, and the court system has brought forth a book that is both informative and enjoyable to read. I only wish that I had this information 2 years ago. I hope that "I Know You Really Love Me" will be the stepping stone in increasing the awareness of how prevalent stalking is for the average human. I am very proud of you for writing this book.

AN EXCEPTIONAL JOURNEY INTO THE MIND & HEART

This is a remarkable book. We have all spent the last decade reading about stalking in the newspaper and watching TV news reports which give a tiny snapshot of this topic. Dr. Orion has given us the whole portrait, with meticulous brush-strokes that coney every nuance and subtlety of a problem that is anything but subtle. The book opens with a sentence that sets the stage beautifully: "I am a psychiatrist who has been having a long-term love affair with a former patient -- in her mind, that is." From there, Orion never loses compassion for the woman who has stalked her for years. She tells of her journey through fear, through the courts, through the actions and comments of her psychiatric peers, through police stations, law offices, frightening encounters at her home and office, and ultimately, to the place she has reached: the place of knowing of stalking from the inside out, as a mental-health expert, as a woman, and as a target. She moves from victim to victor, and the reader is taken along through wonderful writing that conjures the truth about stalking better than any news report or TV movie could ever hope to. Thus, we get the best gift: a learning experience we can enjoy along the way