The Sleep Room - Jon Stock

'Shocking... a damning portrait of a man who, in the name of psychiatric progress, left a trail of broken lives in his wake' Telegraph, five stars'Compelling' Sunday Times and chosen as one of the best 80 books to take on holiday'A gripping expose' Financial Times'Lacerating' Blake Morrison, Guardian Book of the Day 'A beautifully researched, wildly unsettling study of a psychiatrist running amok' Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau"Richly sourced and admirable in its clarity about the importance of speaking to those who were treated by and knew Sargant," Dr Kate Womersley, The Lancet'Shocking investigation' The Times, chosen as a best book of 2025The 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 expose 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. But sinc
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