Betrayal of Trust

Case histories like this are outrageously common, and only on rare occasions they come out into the light to reveal truths that no one wants to have anything to do with. In this case it is actually of universal interest, since it deals with the very fundamentals of the ethics of healing. Barbara Noël, a distinguished and well established, lovely singer in choice night clubs of Chicago came under psychiatric treatment because of fallacies in her performance, and that psychiatrist used her weakness under the influence of psychiatric drugs to violate her, and it went on for years, until she finally woke up. The major problem with all cases of rape is that no one is willing to believe you, since it is so extremely abnormal. In this case, gradually some other patients turn up with the same story under the same doctor, and the case develops. He is a world famous authority on psychiatry, renowned and respected all over the world, so Barbara Noël's case against him as one lonely woman known to have been an alcoholic against a world celebrity couldn't be more difficult. Judith Light makes a great performance in perhaps her life's greatest role, and she is perfectly convincing all the way, sometimes reminding of Barbara Stanwyck. Judd Hirsch as the doctor is more like Ben Gazzara, who could also excel in some very nasty roles. The main and vitally important issue is the fact of a doctor misusing his responsibility and sacred duty as a doctor to instead violate his patients and make them addicts under his abuse instead of helping and curing them.