BOOK

The sleep room

Stock, Jon, author

2025

Overview

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. '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. 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.

• Publisher: The Bridge Street Press
• Subject: Sargant, William Walters. / Royal Waterloo Hospital (London, England) / Psychiatrists Malpractice Great Britain. / Psychiatry History 20th century. / Health and Wellbeing.
• ISBN: 9780349128894, 9780349128900

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RC343 .S76 2025	1	BOOK	GENERAL