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22 days ago

The sinister psychologist who fried the brain of the real-life Ruby Tuesday confined patients to a 'Sleep Room' while administering illegal lobotomies and shock therapy - and also hosted deranged sex parties at his London home

Linda Keith, who famously dated Keith Richards, is among a growing group of women speaking out about the abuse they allegedly suffered at the hands of British psychiatrist Dr William Sargant.

24 days ago

The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – shocking tales from 1960s psychiatry

The horrifying truth behind the practices of psychiatrist William Sargant, one of Britain’s most influential mental health practitioners

You’d think a sleep room would be cosy, but the one on Ward 5 o…

34 days ago

The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies

A child of 14 is forced to walk on to a st…

‘He still features in my nightmares’: how a sinister psychiatrist put hundreds of women in deep, drug-induced comas

In the 1960s, William Sargant used a combination of narcosis and ECT to ‘reprogram’ troubled young women. Now his patients, including the actor Celia Imrie and the former model Linda Keith, are tryin…

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