Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a procedure that’s been compared to a torture method more likely to be found in an interrogator's tool kit rather than in the inventory of a “medical practitioner.” It’s difficult to sanitise the procedure when the truth is in full view. With this…
Derek was admitted to High Royds Hospital near Leeds, in September 1973. He describes how he was depressed, as if fireworks were going off in his head, and he couldn’t think properly.
The psychiatric treatment electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was the focus of protesters who gathered in Central London on Tuesday. The protest coincided with the start of an international congress put on by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) at Central Hall in Westminster. ECT or electroshock, which involves the application of high-voltage…
There are lots of people who think electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) isn’t used anymore. Many people think it’s a psychiatric method that’s only read about in history books. The truth however is that it’s still being used in over one hundred ECT clinics across the UK. Also known as electroshock, it’s been cloaked…