As Jon Stock recounts in “The Sleep Room,” his disturbing chronicle of Sargant’s career, between 1964 and 1972, the psychiatrist, by then an eminence in his field, subjected hundreds of ...

In his new book, "The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him," author Jon Stock tells the story of women subjected to various medical procedures without their consent ...

SLEEP | By Honor Jones | Riverhead | 262 pp. | $28 A version of this article appears in print on May 11, 2025, Page 19 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: State of Consciousness.

Co-authors of the new book, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep, Dr. Bhanu Kolla, left, and Dr. Timothy Morgenthaler are pictured on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, at Mayo Clinic’s Gonda Building in ...

In the 1960s, a hospital in London held a ward full of women who suffered from a range of mental disorders. The women in this “sleep room” were subjected to various medical procedures ...

In his new book, "The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him," author Jon Stock tells the story of women subjected to various medical procedures without their consent ...