In 1976 Irene Mock lost her job as a psychiatric nurse in Nelson as the result of an article she wrote called 'A Warning to Women on the Uses of Psychiatry,' "Officially I was laid off,"; says Mock, who had questioned the use of pills and shock treatment. Mock never worked as a nurse again. Twenty years later, Inappropriate Behaviour (Beach Holme 14.95), her debut collection of short stories, features a trilogy based on the Nelson psych ward where she worked.

[BCBW 1997]