The Case for "Shock" Therapy. The Movement to Ban ECT Ignores Controlled Studies that Attest to its Safety - and the Patients for Whom it Offers the Only Hope - Centre for Suicide PreventionCentre for Suicide Prevention

Year: 1977 Source: Psychology Today, v.11, no.3, (August 1977), p.104 SIEC No: 19831486

Refutes the ideas that electroconvulsive therapy is a punishment inflicted upon helpless or nonconforming mental patients or satisfies the patient’s need for self-punishment, damages the brain, causes death or suicide, or obliterates memory. (KM)

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The Case for “Shock” Therapy. The Movement to Ban ECT Ignores Controlled Studies that Attest to its Safety – and the Patients for Whom it Offers the Only Hope

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