{"product_id":"9780349128900-sleep-room","title":"The Sleep Room","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him\u003cbr\u003eThe disturbing true story of an all-powerful British doctor called William Sargant who in the 1960s and 1970s abused his female patients with the full blessing of the psychiatric establishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautifully researched, wildly unsettling study of a psychiatrist running amok' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Knight, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Premonitions Bureau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A devastating account of the effects one unchecked psychiatrist had on vulnerable mental patients.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Appignanesi, author of \u003ci\u003eMad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SLEEP ROOM\u003c\/b\u003e 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 - lauded by Robert Graves and Aldous Huxley as well regularly appearing on the BBC. When Sargant died in 1988, the obituaries were glowing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs compulsive as a thriller, \u003ci\u003eThe Sleep Room \u003c\/i\u003efinally gets to the truth of a scandal at the heart of the British medical establishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gripping medical biography that encompasses sex, drugs, brainwashing, intelligence operations, murder and several scandals' Frank Tallis, author of \u003ci\u003eMortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.' Cordelia Fine, author of \u003ci\u003ePatriarchy Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTestosterone Rex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55563215667574,"sku":"9780349128900","price":16.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33975319.jpg?v=1753427232","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780349128900-sleep-room","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}