Psychiatry and ECT: Control by Force

     An ECT session runs up to 460 volts of electricity through a person’s brain in order to induce a grand mal seizure. So as not to fracture any vertebrae or teeth from the violence of the electricity or the seizure, a patient is first injected with the same body paralysis drug injected into a death row inmate just before being electrocuted to make their demise more “humane.”

     
     The drug-induced paralysis itself is so painful, though, that an anesthetic must first be given to an ECT patient so he or she does not feel the pain from that medication. The patient goes unconscious, the electric shock is administered, and then the patient undergoes the grand mal seizure. Tripled force to the patient’s brain.

     Any seizure, just by itself, can cause loss of consciousness, convulsions, stiffening of the body, and rhythmic jerking. Why would any doctor even want to cause a seizure in a patient, let alone drugging him half to death beforehand? Every other doctor on the planet is trying to prevent patients from having seizures.

     Around 1930 Hungarian psychiatrist Ladislas Meduna decided that because schizophrenics had less than one type of brain cells than epileptics, inducing an epileptic seizure in schizophrenics might cause them to grow those missing cells and be cured of their schizophrenia.

     Of course, that’s an illogical, crackpot idea to start off with, but it took hold with the psychiatric community in those days. Soon psychiatrist Manfred Sakel was using insulin coma therapy to induce seizures as “therapy.” Unfortunately there was a 5 percent mortality rate with his patients. Then psychiatrist Cerletti saw slaughterhouse pigs being stunned with electricity, but not killed by it, and he started shocking schizophrenics with electricity to induce the “cure” of a seizure.

     In the 1950s psychiatrist Donald Cameron, President of the American, then the Canadian, and then the World Psychiatric Associations, honed the use of ECT for his own experiments with it for the Central Intelligence Agency MKUltra mind control program as an instrument of medical and psychological torture. These sessions proved to be the ultimate coupling of ECT and force on these “patients,” often without their consent and debilitating most of them for life.
 

     Since then ECT has become the psychiatric gold standard for their treatment of last resort. More than 100,000 ECT sessions are given in America annually, more than 1,000,000 worldwide. Yes, it’s a multi-billion dollar psychiatric business.

     It is based on using as much force as necessary to render a patient more controllable and less likely to complain about their condition, the two criteria most psychiatrists now use to judge the “success” of this brutal procedure.

     Actual studies of ECT contradict the notion of any success at all from the procedure. In 2025 Mathiassen’s study conclusively showed the high levels of cognitive impairment and permanent memory loss from ECT. Read’s recent study of 1144 recipients of ECT and their families showed that 56 percent of those ECT recipients found their memory loss was much worse after ECT and 81 percent said that their memory loss lasted more than three years. Both Li and Chen’s ECT studies showed that two thirds of all ECT recipients had significant memory impairment.

     Most doctors do all they can to return their patients to a healthy life. 

     Psychiatrists are the neighborhood bully of the medical field. How do they treat their patients to make them “normal”?

     By beating them to a pulp.