{"id":265,"date":"2010-04-03T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=265"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:10","slug":"think-they-dont-electroshock-people-anymore-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/03\/think-they-dont-electroshock-people-anymore-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Think They Don&#8217;t Electroshock People Anymore? Think Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Even toddlers and pregnant women are being shocked<\/div>\n<p>by Dr. John Breeding, author of <em>The Wildest Colts Make the  Best Horses<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ask  the average person about the use of electroshock treatment in today&#8217;s society  and 9 out of 10 will respond, &#8220;They still shock people?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They  do. It&#8217;s estimated that more than 100,000 Americans are electroshocked each  year; half are 60 and older, and two-thirds are women. In Australia, it was  recently revealed that psychiatrists had electroshocked 55 toddlers age four and  younger. In the UK, three year olds have been brutalized with it. And one of the  country&#8217;s leading mental health &#8220;patients&#8217; rights&#8221; groups\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe National Alliance  of Mental Illness (NAMI)\u00e2\u20ac\u201drecently endorsed the use of electroshock on pregnant  women. One would wonder why a patients&#8217; rights group would endorse such an  obviously harmful procedure if not for the fact that the group has recently been  exposed as a major front for the psycho\/pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/2010\/01\/24\/think-they-dont-electroshock-people-anymore-think-again-even-toddlers-and-pregnant-women-are-being-shocked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the rest of this article by Dr. John Breeding, psychologist,  author of <em>The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For\u00c2\u00a0the truth\u00c2\u00a0about electroshock\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/index.shtml#ect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; CCHRSTL.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even toddlers and pregnant women are being electroshocked. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/03\/think-they-dont-electroshock-people-anymore-think-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-4h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}