m. c. barton md

SHOCKED: A Doctor's Nightmare of Mental Illness
Sex, psychopaths and electroconvulsive shock, madness and survival: Based on a recent true story, vivid, provocative, erotic, frightening and fascinating. ‘SHOCKED’ is the incredible inspiring story of Dani, a physician with a tragic mental illness suffering the modern nightmare of untreatable madness. Pass through the looking glass into the desperate mind of a physician seemingly condemned by the horrors of her father's life and a childhood fractured by his loss.
'SHOCKED' reveals the unthinkable struggles and the lives lived and lost in yesterday's insane asylums and today's psychiatric hospitals. Within those walls riven souls discover psychopaths, mortal fears and the healing power of lust. Dani yearns for a connection to her lost father, a psychiatrist with severe mental illness, but finds herself in a psychiatric hospital where she meets Adrienne. Dani's tormented father seeks happiness, whilst hiding his secret life.
With a mysterious death to be solved, drug dealers, unlikely heroes, courage, and madness across the centuries, 'SHOCKED' winds the stories of Dani and her father into a tale of survival and hope. Determined, Dani is forced from electroconvulsive shock therapy toward a daring experimental neurosurgical procedure that shadows the time of the lobotomy.
Ultimately, the impact of her illness compels her to decide whether to live or die, and Adrienne is Dani's last hope.