Is It Appropriate to Lie to Get Services for Your Clients?

In 1977, Randy Revelle says, he almost killed his two young children with a fireplace poker during a psychotic hallucination brought on by untreated bipolar disorder. But at the time, his health insurer didn't cover psychiatric treatments and his family couldn't get him hospitalized. . . . "In order to get admitted, we had to threaten the doctor with jail and lie about the diagnosis," said Revelle. He responded quickly to lithium, which he still takes today, and went on to become King County executive from 1981 to 1985.