How to Get Out or Stay Out of the Insane Asylum

How to Get Out or Stay Out of the Insane Asylum is George Lincoln Rockwell’s incendiary firsthand account of arrest, courtroom maneuvering, and confinement, written as a tactical manual rather than a memoir. Rockwell presents the psychiatric system as an extension of state power—less a medical refuge than a political instrument—and frames his narrative as instruction for resisting confinement through procedural knowledge, provocation, and psychological counterplay. The book rejects therapeutic language and moral neutrality, favoring confrontation, mockery, and absolute distrust of institutional authority. Part exposé, part survival guide, it is delivered in the voice of a man convinced that dissent is pathologized and that sanity itself has been redefined to enforce compliance. There is no attempt at reconciliation or softening here; the text is raw, tactical, and deliberately antagonistic, meant to be used rather than debated