The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal
Autor Jon Stocken Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2026
'Compelling' Sunday Times
'A gripping expose' Financial Times
'Lacerating' Blake Morrison, Guardian Book of the Day
'Beautifully researched, wildly unsettling' Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau
'Richly sourced and admirable in its clarity,' Dr Kate Womersley, The Lancet
Chosen as a best book of 2025 by The Times
The Royal Waterloo Hospital, London in the 1960s. Six young women lie asleep on low beds. Day and night no longer exist, extinguished by a potent cocktail of antipsychotic, sedative and anti-depressant drugs. The women are taken from their beds by the nurses and given electroconvulsive therapy before being put to sleep again. All under the predatory eye of Dr William Sargant.
When Sargant died in 1988, the obituaries were glowing. But since then, women treated without their consent and with often horrific side-effects lasting decades have been campaigning to tell the truth about Sargant. Author Jon Stock tells these women's stories as well delving into the murky history of Sargant's links with the CIA and M15, both of which took a close interest in his efforts to reprogramme the human mind.
As compulsive as a thriller, The Sleep Room finally gets to the truth of a scandal at the heart of the British medical establishment.
'A devastating account.'
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'A gripping medical biography' Frank Tallis, author of Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
'A chilling case study in dangerous psychiatry,' Cordelia Fine, author of Patriarchy Inc. and Testosterone Rex
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349128917
ISBN-10: 034912891X
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția The Bridge Street Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 034912891X
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția The Bridge Street Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
The Sleep Room is the writer Jon Stock's determined attempt to piece together exactly what went on in Sargant's Sleep Room, which operated from 1964 to 1973... Stock builds on interviews with former patients (including the actress Celia Imrie) and colleagues of Sargant's to make a compelling case that it was home to a scandal that the medical establishment has done its best to forget... In his telling, Sargant emerges as an egomaniacal lech and a dangerous, reckless psychiatrist
Shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry
A shocking account of a very British medical scandal. It's also a damning portrait of a man who, in the name of psychiatric progress, left a trail of broken lives in his wake
Powerful... it is to Stock's great credit that he places patient testimony centre stage
A beautifully researched, wildly unsettling study of a psychiatrist running amok
A gripping medical biography that encompasses sex, drugs, brainwashing, intelligence operations, murder and several scandals
A devastating account of the effects one unchecked psychiatrist had on vulnerable mental patients
A chilling case study in dangerous psychiatry, Stock's gripping exposé of the invasive and reckless interventions inflicted on women in the Sleep Room will keep you wide awake
A gripping and harrowing account of a distinguished medical authority who pushed a therapeutic regime of electroshock, brain surgery and mind-bending drugs to its limit and beyond
A fascinating and compelling account of some of psychiatry's darkest practices that has resonance today
A journalist and thriller writer, perhaps already picturing the inevitable Hulu mini-series, [Stock] makes the most of his subject's lurid fascination, from Sargant's vaulting ego and simian menace... to his private torments.
Written with nuance and tact, The Sleep Room is a chilling exposé into psychiatric care that will resonate deeply [with] readers and, especially, true crime fans.
The Sleep Room underscores the essential need for psychiatric practice and research to be done under the bright lights of regulators and the law, irrespective of who the overseeing clinician happens to be
'A damning portrait' Telegraph
The Royal Waterloo Hospital, London in the 1960s. Six young women are taken from their beds by the nurses and given electroconvulsive therapy before being put to sleep again. All under the predatory eye of Dr William Sargant.
THE SLEEP ROOM is a chilling exposé of Sargant's bizarre psychiatric treatments that were inflicted on hundreds of women with mental illness - among them the actor Celia Imrie. At the story's centre is a sinister and charismatic doctor, who was a hugely influential figure in post-war British society.
But now women he treated without their consent have been campaigning to tell the truth about Sargant. Author Jon Stock tells these women's stories as well as delving into the murky history of Sargant's links with the CIA and MI5, both of which took a close interest in his efforts to reprogramme the human mind.
As compulsive as a thriller, The Sleep Room finally gets to the truth of a scandal at the heart of the British medical establishment.
'Lacerating' Blake Morrison, Guardian Book of the Day
Chosen as a Best Book of 2025 by The Times
Shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry
A shocking account of a very British medical scandal. It's also a damning portrait of a man who, in the name of psychiatric progress, left a trail of broken lives in his wake
Powerful... it is to Stock's great credit that he places patient testimony centre stage
A beautifully researched, wildly unsettling study of a psychiatrist running amok
A gripping medical biography that encompasses sex, drugs, brainwashing, intelligence operations, murder and several scandals
A devastating account of the effects one unchecked psychiatrist had on vulnerable mental patients
A chilling case study in dangerous psychiatry, Stock's gripping exposé of the invasive and reckless interventions inflicted on women in the Sleep Room will keep you wide awake
A gripping and harrowing account of a distinguished medical authority who pushed a therapeutic regime of electroshock, brain surgery and mind-bending drugs to its limit and beyond
A fascinating and compelling account of some of psychiatry's darkest practices that has resonance today
A journalist and thriller writer, perhaps already picturing the inevitable Hulu mini-series, [Stock] makes the most of his subject's lurid fascination, from Sargant's vaulting ego and simian menace... to his private torments.
Written with nuance and tact, The Sleep Room is a chilling exposé into psychiatric care that will resonate deeply [with] readers and, especially, true crime fans.
The Sleep Room underscores the essential need for psychiatric practice and research to be done under the bright lights of regulators and the law, irrespective of who the overseeing clinician happens to be
'A damning portrait' Telegraph
The Royal Waterloo Hospital, London in the 1960s. Six young women are taken from their beds by the nurses and given electroconvulsive therapy before being put to sleep again. All under the predatory eye of Dr William Sargant.
THE SLEEP ROOM is a chilling exposé of Sargant's bizarre psychiatric treatments that were inflicted on hundreds of women with mental illness - among them the actor Celia Imrie. At the story's centre is a sinister and charismatic doctor, who was a hugely influential figure in post-war British society.
But now women he treated without their consent have been campaigning to tell the truth about Sargant. Author Jon Stock tells these women's stories as well as delving into the murky history of Sargant's links with the CIA and MI5, both of which took a close interest in his efforts to reprogramme the human mind.
As compulsive as a thriller, The Sleep Room finally gets to the truth of a scandal at the heart of the British medical establishment.
'Lacerating' Blake Morrison, Guardian Book of the Day
Chosen as a Best Book of 2025 by The Times