Dolores Orrico watched her psychiatrist flip a switch and turn a knob. She stared hard as adjustments were made to the machine that’d soon send her into a seizure. She was lying back in a bed on the ...
Dr Sue Cunliffe, 58, was a paediatrician until she underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in 2004, which she says left her so cognitively impaired that she can no longer work. She now campaigns ...
Electric shock treatment is associated perhaps most with the 1950s and the questionable practices of sectioning people of various eccentricities and locking them up in asylums, as well as to the ...
To the surprise of many people, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still used. In England, about 2,500 people every year undergo the procedure, which involves about ten electric shocks under general ...
TAMPA, Fla., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wisner Baum will serve as lead counsel in the upcoming trial of Jeffrey Thelen v. Somatics, LLC and Elektrika, Inc. Jury selection and opening statements ...
Of all treatments in contemporary psychiatry, perhaps none is more commonly misunderstood than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Its depiction in the popular media and in movies such as One Flew Over ...
Group says California patients subjected to ECT should be recognized as torture survivors on United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 14, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International, a mental health industry watchdog, strongly rejects a recent joint statement ...