> As currently practiced, ECT
> involves the use of informed consent, ultra-brief general anesthesia
> and muscle relaxants ......
Electroshock is going on without informed consent.
There is a case going on right now in New York -- Paul Henri Thomas is being forcefully shocked against his will at PILGRIM PSYCHIATRIC CENTER . His lawyers have been trying to stop it in the courts.
http://mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/paul.shtml
PAUL'S ATTORNEYS have won a four-day Temporary Restraining Order today against forced shock, until a full TRO hearing scheduled for February 27, 2001
Paul needs to win Tuesday's TRO hearing to prevent further surprise shocks before his March 2, 2001 hearing to try to totally stop his forced electroshock.
http://mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010223_c.shtml
*** BUT JUST HOURS BEFORE attorneys obtained the TRO, Pilgrim Psychiatric Center's Director, Alan Weinstock broke his agreement with Paul's attorneys and allowed the surprise forced electroshock of Paul, this morning.
http://mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010223.shtml
*** MEANWHILE, A WHISTLEBLOWER mental health professional who works inside the New York Office of Mental Health (NY OMH) anonymously warned today that coerced shock is a growing systemic problem in many NY State psychiatric facilities.
http://mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/news/010223_b.shtml
Marta
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> Marta:
>
> Have you actually taken a look at the editorial "Electroconvulsive
> Therapy: Time to Bring It Out of the Shadows" in the Journal of the
> American Medical Association?
>
> ***** Electroconvulsive Therapy
>
> Time to Bring It Out of the Shadows
>
> Richard M. Glass, MD
>
> Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most controversial
> treatments in all of medicine. There are a number of reasons for
> this. The discovery in the 1930s that inducing a series of
> generalized seizures, initially with chemicals,1 later with electric
> current,2 could cause the recovery of patients with severe and
> previously untreatable mental disorders produced a wave of enthusiasm
> that eventually led to a period of indiscriminate use and misuse in
> the middle decades of the 20th century.3, 4 This period of abuse
> created, perhaps deservedly at that time, a bad reputation for an
> effective treatment modality. That reputation was enhanced by the
> immediate adverse effects of bitten tongues and even fractured bones
> and teeth caused by the induction of generalized seizures, and the
> painful effects of electroshocks administered without anesthesia when
> they did not successfully induce a seizure with loss of consciousness.