The Locked Ward – Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly by Dennis O’Donnell
Published by Jonathan Cape – €16.99
Dennis O’Donnell’s moving memoir details the seven years he spent working as a psychiatric orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Unit of a major Scottish hospital. O’Donnell’s honest, touching and at times shocking account of life working behind the locked doors of a secure unit gives readers an in depth insight into ‘one of the most feared and stigmatised environments in healthcare’. Listen back to his interview with George on the Right Hook…
