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

    03/29/2025 7:32:23 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 12 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Mar 29, 2025 | Jon Stock
    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 trying to piece together what happenedSNIPEvery day, thousands of commuters and tourists pass beneath the former hospital. Some might look up to admire the terracotta facade, with its ornate colonnades and glazed tile lettering, but few are aware of the medical horrors that took place in one small room on the top floor: the Sleep Room. It was here, on ward five, that female patients – they were...
  • Attempt to stop mandatory mental screening fails

    11/24/2004 6:51:51 AM PST · by George Frm Br00klyn Park · 198 replies · 9,337+ views
    WorldNetDaily / Breaking News ^ | Posted: November 24, 2004 | Staff?
    WorldNetDaily ON CAPITOL HILL Attempt to stop mandatory mental screening fails Congressman pushed language requiring parental consent Posted: November 24, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com An attempt by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, to add language to the omnibus spending bill in Congress to require parental consent for any mental-health screening done to children with federal money has failed. The language was proposed to blunt the effect of a program proposed by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which President Bush established in 2002. The New Freedom Initiative recommends screening not only for children but eventually for every...