Vera Stein (born 1958] in La Paz, Bolivia as Waltraud Storck)[1] is a German author who was held in psychiatric institutions against her will for years due to misdiagnosis.
Vera Stein was held in psychiatric institutions (Frankfurt University Hospital, Dr. Heines Clinic in Bremen) for years from 1974 without sufficient diagnosis and against her will and treated with psychotropic drugs under conditions of puberty.
The family, and in particular the father, were the driving force behind the many inpatient compulsory hospitalizations between 1974 and 1979, even after the patient had reached the age of majority and made several escape attempts.
My case shows what can happen to people who have been deprived of what is most valuable, namely their health, and what additional burdens they have to defend themselves against in order to lead a reasonably decent life despite their damage.In 2005, she was successful with an application to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
[4] At the instigation of her father, she had been placed in a closed ward of the clinic against her will and without a court order, and had been returned there by the police after escaping on March 4, 1979; the rejection of her claims for damages against the clinic in this regard by the judiciary had not taken sufficient account of Article 5 and had thus also violated it.