INSTITUTIONALISED 2: Spanking, Caning, Humiliation, Diapers & Discipline: Or, Confined in the Workhouse, the Effect of Prison & School Uniforms, Stern Nurses & Governesses, the Cane, Tawse & Martinet on Young Women in a Long-Term Residential Clinical Study
Two young women - each coincidently having an inheritance at stake and a grasping, manipulative stepmother holding the purse-strings - have been talked, cajoled and manipulated into joining a privately financed, residential medical research project. Initially signing up for 3 months, isolated within a secure hospital psychiatric wing in a world of petty rules, straightjackets, bedpans, plastic knickers, diapers, restrictive school uniforms and drab prison dresses, each has now served that term several times over; one bristling under a strict boarding-school regime, the other under prison discipline. Overseen by strict nurses, a stern, cane wielding hospital matron & a female psychiatrist, manipulating her young charges by the deliberate induction of phobias, each has been browbeaten into extending her stay. Elsewhere a girl awakens, ostensibly following a car crash – by why is she restrained behind bars on a locked ward? Why does she recall the sting of the tawse, not the... More > twisting of metal?< Less
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By Ordalie
Jan 14, 2011
This is a stunning sequel to "Institutionalised", even more spellbinding than the first one! You find yourself slowly hemmed in and gulping for fresh air. The stress on small but significant details contribute to the sick atmosphere. It's not a book you read and forget, it haunts you long afterwards.
