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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial therapy used to treat certain mental illnesses such as major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, depressed bipolar disorder, manic excitement, and catatonia. [1] These disorders are difficult to live with and often very difficult to treat, leaving individuals suffering for long periods of time.
Electroconvulsive therapy is not a required subject in US medical schools and not a required skill in psychiatric residency training. Privileging for ECT practice at institutions is a local option: no national certification standards are established, and no ECT-specific continuing training experiences are required of ECT practitioners. [115]
David John Impastato (January 8, 1903 – February 28, 1986) was an American neuropsychiatrist who pioneered the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the United States. A treatment for mental illness initially called "electroshock," ECT was developed in 1937 by Dr. Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, working in Rome.
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Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York, [10] who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will [11] [12] Duplessis Orphans Orphans of the 1950s in the province of Quebec, Canada, endured electroshock.
Robert Galbraith Heath (May 9, 1915 – September 21, 1999) was an American psychiatrist. [1] [2] He followed the theory of biological psychiatry, which holds that organic defects are the sole source of mental illness, [3] and that consequently mental problems are treatable by physical means.
A transgender woman in China who recently won 60,000 yuan (roughly $8,300) in compensation from a hospital that forced her to undergo several rounds of electroshock "conversion therapy" has told ...
The Lima et al.'s (2013) [10] study offers a comprehensive systematic review of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for adolescents, concentrating on its efficacy, application criteria, and associated risks. Highlighting ECT's notable success in addressing diverse psychiatric conditions among adolescents, the study portrays it as a highly effective ...