The Sleep Room

Stock has written a valuable work that sheds a lot of light on dark areas of British psychiatry and intelligence and points the way for further study. An essential work.

Powerful... it is to Stock's great credit that he places patient testimony centre stage

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 medical biography that encompasses sex, drugs, brainwashing, intelligence operations, murder and several scandals

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

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

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

Shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry

A beautifully researched, wildly unsettling study of a psychiatrist running amok

A devastating account of the effects one unchecked psychiatrist had on vulnerable mental patients