Book: 'The Sleep Room' by Jon Stock i

Somewhat indirectly - I must emphasize, a book review reminded me of my Registered Mental Nursing student nursing days; and the mind - body divide. Without realising it then I heard the sound of two keys out of the five in Hodges' model. There were positive role models in the staff nurses involved; plus, learning in the routes and modalities of physical and psychological responses to treatments; in the form of medication and therapy. 

'The Sleep Room' highlights the dangers of unbounded belief in recourse to physical treatments. Such books are designed of course to 'sell', to be emotive, sensational. But mental illness - the asylum systems, presents a history of humanistic intent and mechanistic horrors. If mental illness, severe emotional responses can render us as a rag-doll, pursuit of physicalist solutions to the nth degree, is tantamount to shaking the doll: violently.

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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mental	physical  treatment
SOCIO-	resistance? -POLITICS of health

More to follow - ii ...

Sansom, I. Abused by a 'hero' of British medicine, Review. The Daily Telegraph, 29 March 2025. p.15.