Download or read book Storming the Gates of Bedlam written by Meredith Platt and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone whose life has been touched by mental illness will want to meet the man who emptied the asylums and completely transformed the way mental illness was treated. Using desperate measures in desperate times, Dr. Nathan Kline freed the insane from the sanke pits of asylums in 1953. However, he never revealed the painful secret about his own family that determined his destiny. The only winner of two Lasker Awards for scientific achievement, Kline tilted the windmaills of the conservative Psychiatric Establishment to free the insane.