Lucy Freeman Libri

A devoted boyhood admirer of Fighting Bob LaFollette, I've become, since reading this marvelous memoir, a grey-haired admirer of Belle.-- Studs Terkel "Before the Kennedys, before the Roosevelts, there was another great and determined liberal family. Among its members was Belle Case LaFollette, wife of Robert LaFollette, Sr., and a true pioneer on everything from woman's suffrage to worker's rights to keeping the warriors at bay. I enjoyed the book immensely and learned much."-- John Kenneth Galbraith

This is the true story of the first woman to successfully sue her psychiatrist for using sex in the guise of therapy. After Julie Roy's marriage was shattered, she got involved in a lesbian experience that added to her troubles. Julie, in despair, turned for help to Dr. Renatus Hartogs. As part of her therapy, the 60-year-old doctor induced the 31-year-old woman to enter into a strange sexual relationship with him. For a time Julie seemed to mend; then, abruptly, the doctor broke off the relationship. Her condition deteriorated gravely. She was hospitalized twice, and she needed extensive therapy from other doctors to enable her to rebuild her life.

This is the tragedy and triumph of the Bonds, one of the more influential families in America today. My dad played int "A Streetcar Named Desire." My brother Jonathan is president and co-founder of the hip Kirshenbaum and Bond Advertising agency. My ma is a noted psychoanalyst and author of many books. My sister Janet is gettingher Ph.D. in exercise physiology and nutrition. I instigated a bill before Congress tht proposed a change in our coinage. The story pivots around me, Zane Bond, and my life and death struggle for survival.