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…
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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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