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ECT can be used in the treatment for those with major depressive disorder, depressed bipolar disorder, manic bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, manic excitement and catatonia. [7] "Decision to conduct ECT therapy usually comes after there has been failure in other forms of treatment, including medication and psychotherapy". [7]
ECT remains a safe and effective treatment in some circumstances in modern psychiatry. The graduated electronic decelerator (GED), an aversive device that applies a powerful electric shock as a punishment for undesirable behavior.
Two analyses of large numbers of films using ECT scenes found that almost all presented fictional settings that were unrelated to real treatment routines and were apparently aimed at stigmatizing ECT as a tool of repression and of mind and behavior control - having effects of memory-erosion, pain and damage.
This is what happens when medical professionals don't believe women.
The treatment has been refined and well studied in the last few decades and it’s now considered a safe and effective treatment for some illnesses.
Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment can be often more damaging than helpful to patients. [1] [2] The term anti-psychiatry was coined in 1912, and the movement emerged in the 1960s, highlighting controversies about psychiatry. [3]
Yang Yongxin (Chinese: 杨永信; born 21 June 1962) is a Chinese psychiatrist who advocated and practiced a highly controversial [3] form of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) without anesthesia or muscle relaxants as a cure for video game and Internet addiction in adolescents.
Even the appearance of unethical behavior leaves a taint. And the public is fixated on ethical lapses. To remedy this, professionals should be held accountable. Their unethical deeds must be ...