Comprehensive information about ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, aka electroshock, shock therapy. Includes personal ECT experiences, audio and video on ECT, the latest research on the effects of ECT and more.

Introduction

• Shocked! ECT Homepage
• About Shocked! ECT: Why I created Shocked! ECT
• Contact information

About Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

• Psychiatrists' Views on ECT and Brain Damage
• Dr. Sydney Samant on ECT
• Can ECT Permanently Harm the Brain?
• Psychopathology of Frontal Lobe Syndromes
• Brain Damage and Memory Loss From ECT
• An Intro to Neuropsychological Assessment
• Electroshock as head injury
• Brain scans and Charles Kellner
• The Effects of ECT
• ECT Effects on Memory
• ECT: II: Patients who Complain
• Adverse Psychological Effects of ECT
• Memory - Now Where Did I Put Those Keys?
• SHOCK THERAPY... IT'S BACK
• NAMI Promotes Misinformation
• Voices From Within: A Study of ECT and Patient Perceptions
• Time to Abandon Electroconvulsion as a Treatment in Modern Psychiatry
• SHE WAS SHOCKED
• Dr. John Breeding's Testimony to the NY State Assembly
• ECT Damage is Easy to Find if You Look for It
• Hall of Shame
• Video and Audio Files
• Herbal Treatments for ECS-Induced Memory Deficits: A Review of Research and a Discussion on Animal Models
• Participate in an ECT evaluation if you've experienced adverse effects

News

ECT.org In the Headlines

• News from ect.org - In the Headlines Homepage
• ECT abolished in the Republic of Slovenia
• Is electroconvulsive therapy - ECT - a barbaric treatment for mental illness?
• ECT practitioners and users welcome review
• ECT Pamphlet Withdrawn in Australia
• What psychiatrists hate
• No warnings before shock treatment
• Reign of Error
• NAMI Censorship
• NAMI glue scandal keeps raising a stink! Dendrite News Release
• The Shocking Truth
• BC will investigate spike in electroshock treatments
• Doctor's departure spotlights therapy
• Riverview Report
• Doctor fired after blowing whistle on electroshock excess
• Psychiatrist loses license
• Are Psychiatrists Betraying Their Patients?

News from ECT.org - Personal Stories

• News from ect.org - Personal Stories Homepage
• Wayne Lax - The Lost Years
• Shock treatment survivor continues to speak out
• Kenora man was 'high as a kite' cabbie
• Timed Out
• Kenora man takes to world stage -as 'psychiatric survivor'
• Man leads crusade to reduce impaired driving
• People behind the stories
• Speak Out Against Shock
• Psychiatric Survivor tackles road safety
• Come back story an award winner
• Terrible legacy of Lake Alice
• Into the Darkness Into the Light
• Electroconvulsive therapy's return stirs debate on use
• A survivor battles to stop controversial shock therapy
• Shock therapy: 'Ruined lives'
• Undergoing treatment like being hit by a sledgehammer
• Shocking treatment still torture for some
• SHE WAS SHOCKED
• USA Today Series on ECT

News from ECT.org - Lawsuits

• News from ect.org - Lawsuits Homepage
• Shock therapy patients to sue
• Leeds man awarded half million pounds
• Electric shock suit condemns hospital
• A strange story of electroshock, shooting, and intent
• Shock machine company pays up!
• Woman says electric shock treatment destroyed her life
• Shock treatment victim supports suit
• Soldier sues

News from ECT.org - Forced Electroshock

• News from ect.org - Forced Electroshock Homepage
• What to do if you're facing forced electroshock/ECT
• Involuntary and illegal electroshock in Michigan
• Justice Hall Reserves Judgment in Forced Shock Case
• Deciding competence - how the Paul Henri Thomas case points out the Catch-22 in our system
• Paul Henri Thomas - Newsday
• Report from NYC Protest on Forced Shock
• Callous shock docs zap holes in people's lives
• Angry Pol Would Rein In ZAP-HAPPY State Shock Docs
• Dad's Rights Zapped by the Shock Docs
• Electroshock turns Hillside to Hellside
• Family Up in Arms over Psych-Hosp Zap Therapy
• Mom in Tears as docs "treat" her captive son
• The Rosa Parks of Electroshock - Lucille Austwick
• Octogenarian May Be Forced to Undergo Shock Treatment
• Mother Launches Appeal
• Michelle Shocked survives her share of jolts
• Why so many women are still coerced into electroconvulsive therapy

News from ECT.org - Trends in ECT

• News from ect.org - Trends in ECT Homepage
• Electroconvulsive therapy's return stirs debate on use
• American psychiatrist calls shock 'barbaric'
• Debate still rages over electric shock treatments
• Managed Care and ECT
• Documents reveal failures
• Electric shock therapy 'not up to scratch'
• Shock Treatment to be Unplugged?
• New figures show doctors give 1,300 ECT treatments every week
• Electroshock comeback raises tough questions
• Shock Therapy cuts hospital costs
• Use of shock to control prisoners in Uruguay
• Now psychiatrists admit: shock therapy can kill!
• Woman sets record for shock treatment

News from ECT.org - Legislative Updates

• News from ect.org - Legislative Updates Homepage
• Testimony of Leonard Roy Frank
• Testimony of Linda Andre, Director of Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
• Testimony from Anne Krauss
• TESTIMONY OF JOHN M. FRIEDBERG, M.D., NEUROLOGIST
• Testimony of Anna Szyszko
• Press statement from Anna Szyszko
• Luster Press Release
• From the Luster Press Packet
• ECT practices in the community
• Summary of written comments by Mental Hygiene Legal Services
• July 18, 2001 New York Hearings on ECT
• Callous shock docs zap holes in people's lives
• Angry Pol Would Rein In ZAP-HAPPY State Shock Docs
• Dad's Rights Zapped by the Shock Docs
• Electroshock turns Hillside to Hellside
• Electroconvulsive therapy's return stirs debate on use
• Missouri Reporting Law - Sen. Betty Sims says it's too controversial
• New Hampshire HB406 - prohibiting ECT on children under age 16
• State faults area hospitals in use of shock treatments
• Southwest Memorial cited for shock treatment lapses
• Accused MHMR director quits
• Bill sought to ban ECT
• Bill seeks to ban ECT
• Records show improper use
• Shock therapy scrutinzed in wake of woman's death
• Hospital Pulls Plug
• Patient believes ECT caused problems
• Senate passes watered down bill
• Vermont bill passes House
• Italy is Setting Precedent for Banning Electroshock Treatment
• Electroconvulsive therapy is restricted in Italy
• Protestors call for a ban on electroshock
• Shock treatment's return to Niagra provokes range of intense emotions

News from ECT.org - Media Stories

• News from ect.org - Media Stories Homepage
• Into the Darkness Into the Light
• Electric shock treatment
• The Shocking Truth
• USA Today Series on ECT
• SHOCK THERAPY... IT'S BACK
• Lost Memories
• A Kinder, Gentler ECT
• New Look at an Old Therapy
• Electroshock therapy revised
• Called `barbaric' by some, a `miracle' cure by others
• Despite Infamy, Shock Therapy Makes a Comeback
• Shock therapy debate
• Taking the shock out of electroshock
• Return of the electrical monster
• Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
• Shock death in Australia
• ECT shocks to the health system

Studies, Statistics

• Resources - Studies, Statistics, Policy Statements Homepages
• Studies
• The Death of Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Retrospective controlled study of inpatient ECT: does it prevent suicide?
• Study in JAMA reveals high relapse rate
• ECT: Sham Statistics, the Myth of Convulsive Therapy, and the Case for Consumer Misinformation
• Does Electroconvulsive Therapy Prevent Suicide?
• Effectiveness rates
• Does Treatment Influence Mortality in Depressives?
• Stimulus intensity, seizure threshold, and seizure duration
• Effects of stimulus intensity and electrode placement on the efficacy and cognitive effects
• Experimental studies of the therapeutic action
• Electroconvulsive therapy for schizophrenia
• Herbal Treatments for ECS-Induced Memory Deficits: A Review of Research and a Discussion on Animal Models
• Electroconvulsive Therapy During Pregnancy
• The Identification and Management of Patients with a High Risk for Cardiac Arrhythmias During Modified ECT
• Electroshocking Elderly People: Another Psychiatric Abuse
• Half a Century of ECT Use in Young People
• Max Fink on pediatric ECT
• Expert Warns Against ECT for Kids
• EEG Monitoring in ECT
• Is electroconvulsive therapy unsuitable for children and adolescents?
• Time to Abandon Electroconvulsion as a Treatment in Modern Psychiatry
• Food and Drug Administration Action is Required
• Voices From Within: A Study of ECT and Patient Perceptions
• Voices - abstract
• ECT: II: Patients who Complain
• Salford Report
• Survivor Views
• Mayo study, report from Reuters
• New UK report from Mind examines patient experiences
• Electroshock and Informed Consent
• Legal Parameters of Informed Consent Applied to Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Sweet Words That Hurt
• The History of ECT
• Applying the scientific method to the processes of science can be illuminating
• ECT Anon - Research Information
• NAMI promotes misinformation
• Shock Doc Roster
• About CTIP - The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry

Statements and Reports

• Statements and Reports Homepage
• National Mental Health Association (NMHA) Policy Position on ECT
• RESOLUTION AGAINST ELECTROSHOCK - A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
• American Psychiatric Association
• APA: Recommendations
• The Practice of Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Censored!
• CMHS report on ECT
• CMHS meeting on ECT
• Debate simmers as controversy flares
• A dialogue with the FDA
• Richard Abrams writes to the FDA
• Max Fink writes to the FDA
• Patient groups criticize federal report on shock therapy
• Federal Report Praising Electroshock Stirs Uproar
• ECT Document Reverberates Over the Internet Copyright
• Consumer group criticises surgeon general on ECT
• "Unscientific" Surgeon General's Report Misrepresents Research, Minimizes Risks of Electroshock, Say Advocates
• Draft Surgeon General's Report endorses ECT despite evidence of its dangers<
• Letter from Support Coalition International
• MISLEADING REPORT OVERSTATES PREVALENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS

Statistics

• Statistics Homepage
• California Figures from the Dept. of Mental Health
• Salford Report
• Survivor Views
• Ontario stats
• New UK report from Mind examines patient experiences
• Comments on "ECT in Scotland" from Alex Doherty

Alternative Treatments for Depression

• Self Help, Depression Treatment, Alternative Treatment for Depression Homepage
• Overcoming the Impossible
• Effective Mood Stabilization With a Chelated Mineral Supplement
• Herbal Treatments for ECS-Induced Memory Deficits: A Review of Research and a Discussion on Animal Models
• Goggles
• Fish oil found to ease manic depression
• Prozac of the sea
• Fats for mental health
• Pathway to health
• Omega 3 Fatty Acids in Bipolar Disorder
• SAME
• Healing any doubts over 'natural' therapy
• Insight meditation found to relieve psoriasis, anxiety
• Acupuncture can work, and it's not just wishful thinking
• Patient, Heal Thyself

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