- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Dell; Reprint edition (July 6 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 044022599X
- ISBN-13: 978-0440225997
- Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 10.8 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,541,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In September 1989, Doreen Orion was just beginning her psychiatric practice when one of her female patients developed an erotomanic obsession with her. Over the next eight years, this patient skulked outside of Orion's house and at her workplace, leaving bizarre messages, watching her, and making her unwelcome presence known in virtually every aspect of her life. In I Know You Really Love Me, Orion recounts her legal and emotional struggles as she tried to take control of the situation.
As a psychiatrist, Orion has fascinating insights into the condition that causes some people to obsess inappropriately over others. She also describes compellingly the feelings of helplessness and fear that stalking causes its victims--but always with the compassion and understanding of someone who works with the mentally ill. Her unique perspective as both a victim and a professional makes I Know You Really Love Me not just a blow-by-blow account of a stalking, but a practical guide to understanding, avoiding, and discouraging stalkers. --Lisa Higgins
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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, the bizarre mental disorder that causes stalkers to believe their victims are in love with them--and no inkling that she would be the next target of Fran's twisted, dangerous mind.
Now Dr. Orion reveals how she has been spied upon, accosted, and hunted for eight years, living in fear of her life and the lives of those closest to her. Changing her address and job, getting restraining orders and having Fran arrested, have all failed to end Fran's obsessive behavior, which continues to this day.
Recounting the ordeals of Madonna, David Letterman, and scores of others who have been terrorized by stalkers, Dr. Orion alerts potential victims to this increasingly deadly disorder--and tells what society must do to protect us all from those who would kill for love.
Now Dr. Orion reveals how she has been spied upon, accosted, and hunted for eight years, living in fear of her life and the lives of those closest to her. Changing her address and job, getting restraining orders and having Fran arrested, have all failed to end Fran's obsessive behavior, which continues to this day.
Recounting the ordeals of Madonna, David Letterman, and scores of others who have been terrorized by stalkers, Dr. Orion alerts potential victims to this increasingly deadly disorder--and tells what society must do to protect us all from those who would kill for love.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Supervision,
By Jon Smith (San Francisco, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love (Mass Market Paperback)
Actually, if you look on page 114 of the paperback edition- the author writes,"Ever since the day Tim and I had met, I as the fourth year medical student and he as the second-year resident assigned to supervise me..." Her fiance was, in fact, her supervisor for awhile. I don't think this fact detracts the the book's overall impact and importance, however.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Riveting Read, Crucial Information,
By Leah (Wenatchee, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love (Mass Market Paperback)
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.
3.0 out of 5 stars
excellent, but lacking a fulfilling depth,
By Daniel Mackler (on the road) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love (Mass Market Paperback)
excellent because: grippingly written, obviously well-researched, carefully thought-out, and with powerfully expressed feelings of terror and powerlessness. my critique: it sounds horrible to say, but I wonder if Doreen Orion really did all she could to protect herself from her stalker. it struck me that her only real growth in the book in relation to her stalker was to become a better legal advocate for herself, and as such the book degraded from a personal journey into a legalistic and advocacy morass. then: I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow when she said how she met her psychiatrist fiancé - that he was her THERAPEUTIC SUPERVISOR! she failed to see the parallel in power dynamics between the beginning of her relationship with her fiancée and the beginning of her "stalker's" relationship with her! although I don't want to jump to any conclusions, I felt this was completely unmined territory in the book (and in Orion's personal life), and my raised antennae tell me there's more to this than meets the eye... some other questions in the same vein: it seemed, as of publication of the book, that Orion's stalker was still at large, and would almost certainly read this book. why would Orion even open this door? I think she, like many writers and would-be famous people, use the most awful bits of their own personal life to launch themselves into the public eye, to get even more famous - but wouldn't that just fan the flames of an erotomanic? perhaps at some deep and unspoken-of level, despite her true horror of being stalked, she gets some primal gratification from the attention of her stalker, and somehow her stalker picks up on it...like the two of them feed each other...and actually are in a relationship. finally: never does Doreen Orion mention some vital relationships of her own - that with any therapists of her own, or, and I think most importantly, with her parents. I can only wonder what knowledge of the dynamics between Orion and these important others would add to my understanding of her apparently still-evolving relationship with her stalker.
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