This study provides valuable consumer-provided insights and recommendations for psychiatrists and mental health clinicians working within ECT clinics and with consumers considering or preparing for ECT.
This study aims to explore practice, use, and risk of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in pregnancy.
A response to yet another defence of ECT in the absence of robust efficacy and safety evidence by Professor John Read
Ross was given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) based on a misdiagnosis. His life was nearly destroyed as a result of the treatments. This is his life after ECT.
In part 3, electroshock survivor Lisa Morrison shares her insights women, ECT and the mental health system as well as what can be done to improve circumstances for patients and care provider.
I am a survivor of ECT. I had a fairly typical experience. Five years of my life were permanently erased as if they had never happened, including most of my college education; I lost 40 points off my IQ; and I’ve been left with permanent disabling memory and cognitive deficits.