The Story Behind 'The Green Memory of Fear' by B.A. Chepaitis

I sat in the courtroom, listening to a witness for the defense in a case against a psychiatrist  accused of sexually abusing one of his former patients.  I was there as a support person for the former patient. I knew he was telling the truth, because he had a tape of the psychiatrist admitting what he'd done.  But at that moment the witness for the psychiatrist was talking fast about how psychiatric patients make things up, how they lie because of their problems.  I was upset ...