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4 months ago
For many of us, the very mention of electric shock (or electroconvulsive) therapy (ECT) conjures up dark thoughts of locked wards, nightmares and Boris Karloff movies of the 1950s.
7 months ago
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – the psychiatrist who abused female patients ○
This harrowing account of a British doctor and his shocking experiments on young women includes a testimony from the actor Celia Imrie, who was one of his patients
In a hospital in Waterloo, London, i…
10 months ago
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry ○
The horrifying truth behind the practices of psychiatrist William Sargant, one of Britain’s most influential mental health practitioners
You’d think a sleep room would be cosy, but the one on Ward 5 o…
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse ○
A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies
A child of 14 is forced to walk on to a st…
‘He still features in my nightmares’: how a sinister psychiatrist put hundreds of women in deep, drug-induced comas ○
In the 1960s, William Sargant used a combination of narcosis and ECT to ‘reprogram’ troubled young women. Now his patients, including the actor Celia Imrie and the former model Linda Keith, are tryin…
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