Tag Archives: ECT

Huffington Post Admits Mental Disorders Are Not Medical Conditions

Huffington Post Admits Mental Disorders Are Not Medical Conditions A leading psychiatrist featured in the Huffington Post just admitted what CCHR has said for decades — mental disorders are not medical conditions. Allen Frances, professor emeritus at Duke University and … Continue reading

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Nursing Home Abuses

Nursing Home Abuses The June 2013 issue of Consumer Reports magazine had this to say about antipsychotic drugs given to nursing home patients: “These and related drugs are supposed to be used only for patients with diagnosed psychiatric conditions such … Continue reading

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The New ECT – Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

The New ECT – Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation In our last newsletter we discussed Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) as an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in order for the psychiatric industry to continue generating income if ECT were banned. One can … Continue reading

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The New ECT – Vagus Nerve Stimulation

The New ECT – Vagus Nerve Stimulation An electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) device is used for treating psychiatric disturbances by inducing in the patient a major seizure by applying a brief intense electrical current to the patient’s head, also called shock … Continue reading

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On the Sea of Memory

On the Sea of Memory: A Journey from Forgetting to Remembering a book by Jonathan Cott Cott describes what it was like to re-invent himself after 36 ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) sessions created a fifteen year gap in his memory. “At … Continue reading

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