About Like Father, Like Son?
Like Father, Like Son? is the story of a conflict between a headstrong adolescent named Alex and his domineering, authoritarian father, set in the 1970s.
It’s also a story of corruption and cronyism within the British mental health establishment and it’s set in a time of transition from the prosperous, but still relatively conservative immediate post-WWII years to the more liberal post-hippie era of the 1970s. Defiant, confrontational, insubordinate, and determined not to be knocked into line, Alex nevertheless becomes a sitting target for the iron-fisted headmaster of an approved school, who resolves to “put the fear of God into him”.
By the time he was thrown into his padded cell in the high security wing at the infamous, now defunct North Wales Hospital, the hospital already had a reputation throughout the UK for ‘curing’ homosexuals, principally through electric shock treatment said to be administered to the genitals.
How did Alex’s own course of treatment go? How did he get along with his two cellmates; one, an ex-gangland mobster, the other a Broadmoor transferee, and both convicted murderers? And, more importantly, how did he ever manage to escape from such a God-forsaken place? That’s just one part of the subject matter of this book.
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