Atrocities like this are the norm in psychiatry. Using drugs, pain and hypnosis the shrinks program people into soulless killers. You may have noticed that all school and workplace and mass shooters are on psych drugs. This is not side effects. It’s what psych treatments do.
“If it was damaged, it first needed to be “splinted”. A splinted brain, Dr.?
“female patients – they were almost always women – were put to sleep for three to four months (in one case, five), only roused from their beds to be fed, washed and given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): a shock of up to 110 volts that passed bilaterally through the temporal lobe of the brain, triggering a grand mal seizure”
I would assume that friends and family would have noticed their prolonged absence.
Would you not visit your mom, daughter or spouse for months on end?
In the 1940s and 50s, coma therapy and electroconvulsive therapy were accepted techniques in psychiatry. There were no real psychoactive medications, other than uppers and downers, until the mid1950s when Thorazine made its debut. This Sargent fellow sounds like he went off the rails with these somatic treatments, but he would have been able to say he was acting generally within accepted practice.
I think there was a movie about this.
This is tragic, absolutely tragic.