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'A gripping medical biography that encompasses sex, drugs, brainwashing, intelligence operations, murder and several scandals' Frank Tallis, author of Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
A devastating account of the effects one unchecked psychiatrist had on vulnerable mental patients.
Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors
'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 Patriarchy Inc. and Testosterone Rex
'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.' Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind