It’s been an interesting morning. As I scrolled through the news, I ran across a new movie called Nuremberg. It is about a psychiatrist who studied the psychology of Hermann Göring and twenty-one other Nazis who were about to be tried in Nuremberg, Germany for war crimes.

The psychiatrist’s name was Kelley, which immediately caught my attention. My mother was treated at Graylyn Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC, by a psychiatrist named Kelley. She had told me her doctor was somehow connected to the Nuremberg trials. When I looked up the psychiatrist’s name in the movie, it was listed as Douglas Kelley. I checked information on Graylyn, and sure enough, Douglas Kelley was the head psychiatrist when my mother was hospitalized there.

My mother had daily bouts of intolerable pain in her colon. Doctors at Duke and Johns Hopkins found no physiological cause. Psychosomatic pain may be due to unresolved conflict or trauma. There was evidence of childhood anal sexual abuse. A relationship with a female professor led her to bolt from college and marry. She was 39 when she was admitted to Graylyn psychiatric hospital. Graylyn........

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