High-Powered Treatment

Despite the stigma, electroshock therapy is making a quiet comeback.

MSNBC

Aug 6, 2008 | Updated: 2:40 p.m. ET Aug 6, 2008

Posted By: jane.simpson.wilson @ 08/15/2008 3:14:12 PM

Comment: ECT....are we regressing because we are not willing to work on other therapies that can be effective. This just seems so Draconian to me. Cukoo's Nest. Kesey worked at the Palo Alto VA when he was at Stanford and saw this brutality practiced, hence his book. Please stop this madness. My husband is 100 per cent disabled from his service to our country and his Depression is staggering in it's depth and the pain that it causes him on a daily basis, but I would rather euthanizehim than put him through this bbarbaric "treatment". Shame on the AMA.
Posted By: A. Nonymus @ 08/07/2008 2:19:40 PM

Comment: There's a good deal of ill-informed reactionary hysteria aimed at ECT, much of it promoted by the Church of Scientology. John Breeding, for instance, is a notorious flack for the "Citizens Commission on Human Rights," a CoS front organization that promotes L. Ron Hubbard's dictum that psychiatrists are "the sole cause of decline in this universe." The real reason for Hubbard's hostility to psychiatry and its therapeutic tools is obvious: vulnerable people make better victims for predatory con men, and real scientific healing makes them harder to victimize.