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Electroconvulsive therapy

·2012·Psychiatry in Dissent
DOI 10.4324/9780203714935-12
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THERE IS scarcely a more controversial or a more widelyused treatment in contemporary British psychiatry than electroconvulsive treatment - ECT. Accounts of the procedure by hostile critics and by some patients who have experienced it suggest a treatment approach whereby minds are blown apart, memories erased, and feelings blunted by a procedure more closely resembling an amateur mechanic kicking his defective car than a scientifically validated medical treatment. First-hand accounts tell of bodies writhing, people whimpering, and limbs thrashing uncontrollably, and there is a firm body of opinion that testifies to the irreversible damage to the brain itself said to occur in patients who have undergone hundreds of shock treatments.

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Venue
Psychiatry in Dissent
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2012-11-12
Pages
246-294
DOI
10.4324/9780203714935-12
OpenAlex
W3134718278
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909
References
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144.86
Type
book chapter
Language
en
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