MixedThe Guardian (UK)To say that these stories are difficult to read is an understatement ... It is to Stock’s great credit that he places patient testimony centre stage ... The Sleep Room can present [Sargant] as almost cartoonishly villainous ... This portrayal unhelpfully flattens very real and complicated issues over how best to treat serious mental illness ... With more nuance and less condemnation, Stock could have interrogated more richly the complexities of how best to treat disabling and life-threatening psychiatric illness.
