‘The Screams I Still Hear’ – At the age of 17, Amanda Cullen became a psychiatric patient of Ivor Brown, but reliving a childhood trauma haunts her to this day Achi-News

Amanda Cullen’s memories of her treatment in state psychiatric institutions are shocking. She remembers lying on a mattress in the chapel as the cries of other patients – mostly adults – echoed around her as the drug ketamine took effect.