3. The Locked Ward is an extraordinary memoir that sets
out to reveal the true story of life in a psychiatric ward -
the fear, the violence and despair, and also the care
and the compassion. Recounting the stories of the
patients he worked with, and those of the friends he
made on the ward, O'Donnell provides a detailed
account of day-to-day life behind the doors of the most
feared and stigmatised environment in healthcare.