Profile: Dr Bourne's identity –credit where credit's due

Abstract

This article focuses on the profile of Harold Bourne. Dr Harold Bourne, a man whose actions prevented innumerable deaths and misery, this was not the case. The reasons why such a state of affairs came to pass are tied up in the story of an individual’s fight for justice with no fear of the consequences: one man taking on the mainstream medical profession in order to stop use of a treatment that had been harming and killing people across the world for more than a quarter of a century. This classic David and Goliath battle began 60 years ago, when Bourne decided to blow the whistle on a well-established treatment for schizophrenia, insulin coma therapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)