A Brief History of Electroshock Therapy (ECT) ... Only five states - - California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts and Texas - - require its hospitals to keep hard statistics on electroshock treatments.
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Manic depression plagued Andy Behrman, author of Electroboy, a young bipolar man who had 19 electroshocks and lost memory after involvement in counterfeiting, jail time, house arrest, hospitalization, and finally into healing with Electroshock Therapy treatment known as ECT. ... ABOUT MANIC DEPRESSION (BIPOLAR DISORDER)
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Information, statistics, support and discussion: electroconvulsive therapy, aka ECT, electroshock, shock treatment, shock therapy, EST ... Welcome to ect.org. This site is a comprehensive collection of information about ECT. This website is an attempt to bridge that information gap and to help you make a more informed decision.
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Hard statistics in ECT are so hard to come by, that anything you can provide to media and other interested parties is a good thing, IMO. ... Dr Blake falsifies documents, so to see that she made a comment completely contradicting the facts doesn’t surprise me any more. ... Kathleen Garrett and forced electroshock in St. Louis...
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-- D.G. Cameron, "ECT: Sham Statistics, the Myth of Convulsive Therapy and the Case for Consumer Misinformation." Journal of Mind and Behavior, 15, pp. 177-198, (1994). ... 3. Electroshock ("electroconvulsive therapy" or "E.C.T.") has never been proven medically safe or effective.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy has received some bad press as a result of what the treatment used to be. ... For all of us. Let's replace a few of the myths with facts. ... Those are comforting statistics about a treatment that has an ugly name & ugly connotations but beautiful & even life-saving results.... . . . . . . . .
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Also known as electroconvulsive shock therapy or electroshock therapy, ECT is used together with anesthesia, muscle relaxants and oxygen to produce a mild generalized seizure or convulsion.
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The acronym ECT stands for "ElectroConvulsive Therapy" (also called EST, for ElectroShock Therapy) a psychiatric treatment in which electricity is applied to the head and passed through the brain to produce a grand mal or major convulsion. ... Psychiatric Drug Facts - Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
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to provide historical and mathematical proof that convulsive therapy is a myth; and to show that modern ECT/EST devices are much more powerful, not less powerful, than ECT/EST devices of ... Now some doctors and some people have said "Well electroshock erases the mind and it's like erasing a blackboard." That's nonsense.
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