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The psychiatrist obsessed with ‘reprogramming’ minds

William Sargant’s controversial treatments of troubled young women in the 1960s included prolonged induced comas, ECT and, in extreme cases, lobotomies

Leyla Sanai
William Sargant at home in St John’s Wood, London, in 1975. Alamy
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