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Handbook of Ect

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I picked up the book with a strong bia against ECT. The book addressed many of those biases and demonstrated that those biases were for the most part false. The book points out the fact that people fear what they do not understand, and ECT is much misunderstood.

I recomend this book to anyone who's physician has suggested ECT as the best treatment available. One need not live with crippling depression, nor live with a baseless fear of an effective treatment.

Its amazing to me how people critque illnesses they have no idea about. Ect is a last hope procedure. It is a rough procedure but would u rather kill yourself or have this done to you. I think the ladder would be the ideal option. Depression is a disease , just like cancer just like aids, until people can distinquish this fact, depression and ect will be stigmatized by morons such as this reviewers are here. I had depression for 6 yrs and nothing has help except ECT , i strongly recommend it this book and the procedure. And clueless people that say ECT is bad ECT is horrible, it is nothing compared to the horrors of depression and living on this crappy planet. So to the ones that say ect is destroying your mind, your mind is already destroyed by depression. Ect is hope and the nay sayers just so there ignorance.

Book is fine. Useful. It is ashame that folks with strong false beliefs badmouth the book and ECT. They are wrong. If my choice was for ECT or for taking a bunch of pills day after day I would go for ECT. James Staudenmeier, MD, MPH (Health Services Administration)

A "how to" book. An easy to use manual which instructs physicians in the practice of inflicting closed head injury on human beings in the name of healing. An easy users guide for psychiatrists interested in supplementing their annual income by thousands of dollars per year without spending more than a few minutes of their time per week, per patient. A lively read about the procedure still used to control "uncontrollable" patients in psychiatric facilities. Chapter after chapter of fun and vivid facts about how to use electricity to induce grand mal seizures in humans which then cause irreversible and potentially progressive dementia. Clear instructions on "how to" 'cure' depression by damaging brain cells and tissue in an attempt to erase memory, dull senses, flatten emotions, and decrease IQ level. An entertaining missive about "how to" get away with violating the fundamental ethical principle in medicine, namely, "do no harm." Clear and articulate instruction in the art of systematic violation of human rights.

This book is a manual for shock doctors. Shock therapy is a brain damaging, abusive, and humiliating proceedure that needs to be obliterated before the new millenium. There needs to be an alternative to ect, somehow!