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CT: Dangerous on Either Side of the Pond

No one has precise data about how many Americans receive ECT each year, let alone how many treatments each patients receives or how closely providers space treatments. This is a troubling dilemma, according to the authors. https://breggin.com/wp-content/uploads/Read-John-in-Psychiatric-TimesApril-2021.docx.pdf

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The need to ban electroconvulsive therapy

The need to ban electroconvulsive therapy by Peter R. Breggin.M.D. (excerpts from Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry )   I have long argued that ECT is an ineffective, dangerous, anachronistic treatment that should be abandoned by modern psychiatry. Yet, despite the urging of many victims of ECT, I refused for many […]

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Proposals for the regulation of electroshock

Presented to the “ECT Study Committee” of the Vermont State legislature on July 17, 2000 by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. Director, International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology Two pages–Revised after live report to the committee ECT should be banned. It is so damaging and ineffective that the […]

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First ECT malpractice suit won

Jury Awards $635,000 in Shock Suit In June 2005 in Columbia, South Carolina, a jury awarded $635,000 in a malpractice suit against a psychiatrist who referred a patient for electroshock treatment. The hospital had previously settled for a small amount and the doctor who administered the treatment was not found […]

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Jury awards $635,000 in ECT suit

In June 2005 in Columbia, South Carolina, a jury awarded $635,000 in a malpractice suit against a psychiatrist who referred a patient for electroshock treatment. The hospital had previously settled for a small amount and the doctor who administered the treatment was not found negligent. The plaintiff, Peggy Salters, is […]

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