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List of Links for Further Education about Electroconvulsive Therapy
There are many, many websites today which give accurate information, opinions, and misinformation on electro convulsive therapy. They cover the gamut from strictly “scientific” publications, to more general articles, to personal “lived experience” testimonies and blogs from those who have undergone ECT. These sites also run the gamut from quite positive to quite negative views of ECT. The sites listed below can generally be trusted for the integrity of their viewpoints about electroshock therapy. This is by no means a complete list, but it offers some trustworthy starting points to further your knowledge about electroconvulsive therapy.
Be Alert to the Source of Any ECT “Information”
As you probably know, the marketing budget of the American Psychiatric Association is massive. The AP is funded in large part by sales of the DSM 5, which lists at $162.00 for the paperback edition, $201.00 for the hard cover. The DSM 4 sold over a million copies.
One study showed that over half the DSM-5-TR panel members received funding from Big Pharma which totaled over $14 million.
All of that money buys a lot of influence in the media and on the internet, including YouTube and social media sites. It can also buy a lot of “scientific” ECT studies and professional articles.
Be careful what you read about electroconvulsive therapy.
List of Electroconvulsive Therapy Websites
This site gives information about electroconvulsive therapy, offers personal testimonials about the negative effects some have received from ECT, and offers legal routes people can follow if they feel they have been injured by ECT. There are videos by Dr, Peter Breggin, Dr. John Breeding, and Deborah Schwartzkopff, an ECT survivor and the founder of ECT Justice.
This ECT survivor advocacy site gives documentation from medical professionals about the dangers of ECT as well as provides a list of other resources – such as Linda Andre’s book, Doctors of Deception.
This site provides a long list of links to more information about the procedure of electroconvulsive therapy, its confirmed side effects, litigation regarding ECT, rehabilitation from ECT, and a host of other studies and websites with pertinent information about electroconvulsive therapy.
Mind Freedom’s mission is to “lead a nonviolent transformation, championing human rights and options in mental health care, uniting psychiatric survivors, consumers and allies with movements for justice everywhere.” Their goals are, among other aims, to “challenge human rights abuses in mental health care” and to “promote humane and effective mental health care.” The site contains an abundance of helpful literature supporting those goals.
psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/electroshock.htm
This Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) page offers an extensive list of links to references, articles, studies, personal testimonies, historical archives, and comprehensive bibliographies about electroconvulsive therapy.
narpa.org/reference/fda-regulation-of-ect
“A Beginner (or Refresher) Course about the FDA’s Regulation of ECT” is how they describe their site, and they offer a short, concise history of the FDA regulations that have evolved for the use of ECT devices on patients diagnosed with catatonia or unresponsive mental disorders.
psychrights.org/research/digest/Electroshock/ElectroshockPamphlet.pdf
A short, but quite informative pamphlet prepared by “a group of concerned ECT survivors who want to make sure that those who are considering electroconvulsive therapy have all the facts in order to make a true informed consent before involving themselves or a family/friend in this so called “treatment.” The manual can be downloaded as a PDF.
www.ectstatistics.wordpress.com
A series of articles, references, and other publications which list factual data about electroconvulsive therapy and its history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_undergone_electroconvulsive therapy
A list of well known people who have received CT, some of whom are well known for having had their lives ruined by the procedure…Ernest Hemingway, Judy Garland, and Sylvia Plath, for example.
A sister site to this one which provides blogs, news articles, and other sources of information about many other mental health abuses — besides electroconvulsive therapy — by the FDA, Big Pharma, and psychiatry.