A beautifully researched, wildly unsettling study of a psychiatrist running amok.”—Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau
“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
“It is to Stock’s great credit that he places patient testimony centre stage, allowing several patients to tell their stories at length in their own, unedited words.”—The Guardian
“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
“A gripping expose.”—Financial Times
“ Lacerating.”
—Blake Morrison, Guardian Book of the Day“Shocking investigation.”—The Times, chosen as a best book of 2025
“With the thoroughness of top-notch journalism and the controlled tone of the best espionage fiction, Stock serves up one chilling anecdote after another. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into the heart of darkness.”—Publisher's Weekly, starred review
“An emotionally powerful narrative that is equally as disturbing.”—The Associated Press
“[The Sleep Room]investigates the alarming practices of an eminent British psychiatrist who believed in treating mental illness with high-risk physical interventions....makes for shocking reading."—The New York Times Book Review
