The Psychopath Machine:
A Story of Resistance and Survival

"Smith writes that his 1968 arrest for car theft at the age of 18, even though the charges were later dropped, “began my trip into hell, which was to last eight months and haunt me the rest of my life.” He was sent to Oak Ridge, a forensic mental health facility in Midland, Ontario, where he says that a doctor told him he was a “psychopath” and subjected him to treatment that included large doses of hallucinogens and other drugs, sleep deprivation, and being handcuffed to fellow inmates (“rapists and killers determined to convince me I was insane”).

...Smith writes very expressively about his own confusion, despair, and anger. The book sheds light on therapeutic practices considered cutting-edge in their time, but which now seem barbaric."

[Steve Smith] makes his tangled story readable and absorbing... an engrossing personal memoir."     -Kirkus Reviews

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The hallucinations began after a few days of sleep deprivation. It started with smoke at the edge of my peripheral vision and then thousands of bugs crawling on my skin.
READ THE HISTORY OF OAK RIDGE, ONTARIO'S FORMER MAXIMUM SECURITY MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY, AND THE INHUMANE TREATMENT PROGRAM UNDER THE CONTROL OF DR. BARKER.

STEVE SMITH, author
© Steve Smith, 2016