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Actress Kristen Bell: 'My grandma was a test subject for electroshock therapy'

6/7/2016 - Most notable for her bubbly and upbeat roles in various romantic comedies including Couples Retreat and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Kristen Bell is certainly one of America's sweethearts. But the actress, who appears to be one of the happiest and most positive people you could hope to meet, isn't afraid...

American Psychiatric Association pushes for electroshock therapy for children and teens

5/12/2016 - The American Psychiatric Association is pressuring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to permit the use of electroshock therapy (ECT) on children and adolescents resistant to current therapies and drugs. The treatment, an archaic technique invented in the 1930s, sends jolts of electricity into the...

Watchdog group protests annual American Psychiatric Convention, objects to recommendation of use of electroshock therapy on children and teens

5/10/2016 3:53:15 PM - Citizens Commission on Human Rights is holding a rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, May 14 at 10:30 a.m. to protest the American Psychiatric Association's recommendation that electroshock therapy (ECT) be used on children and teenagers unresponsive to psychiatric drugs. CCHR is a non-profit mental...

Electroshock therapy could (and will) be used on 15 million Americans to treat Major Depressive Disorder

3/15/2016 - In a rather bizarre turn of events, the Food and Drug Administration appears set to reverse course on earlier data proving that electroshock therapy had no medical value, by reclassifying the devices, thereby making it easier for psychiatrists to use on certain mentally impaired patients. That said,...

FDA to declassify electroshock therapy to same risk category as condoms and contact lenses

3/14/2016 - The Food and Drug Administration is set to allow for the dramatic expansion of electroshock therapy for patients who have been diagnosed with clinical depression, through reclassification of the devices used to deliver shock treatment, despite the fact that experts and former patients have attested...

Flashback: Electroshock therapy still used in USA - Boy tortured with 31 shocks over seven hours, strapped to table

11/2/2013 - Video transcript: Health Ranger: Alright, welcome to the Health Ranger Report, this is Mike Adams with NaturalNews.com. Today we're bringing you some disturbing footage of a teenage boy being quote 'treated' with electroshock therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Center. This is a center for, well, quote...

Electroshock torture handcuffs now patented: Delivers shocking torture, 'gas injections' and 'chemical restraints' to prisoners via remote control

12/12/2012 - It's like something ripped right out of a dystopian futuristic sci-fi novel: A U.S. patent has been uncovered that describes electronic handcuffs capable of delivering torturous electroshocks, "gas injections" and injectable "chemical restraints" to prisoners who wear them. The cuffs can be remote-controlled...

FDA looks the other way while school uses electroshock torture on autistic students

6/25/2012 - A special needs school in Canton, Massachusetts, known as The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) is once again in the news, this time for its use of a controversial form of therapy that is no longer officially approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to a recent report by CNN's Anderson...

China Finally Stops Using Electroshock Therapy to "Treat" Internet Addicts

11/25/2009 - The Health Ministry of China has issued an order banning the use of electroshock therapy for the treatment of Internet addiction, in response to a nationwide scandal that erupted after former patients of the Linyi Mental Health Hospital in Shandong province wrote in blogs and forums that they had been...

Psychiatry Still Uses Electroshock Therapy on Children

3/26/2009 - A recent article published in the Melbourne, Australia paper Herald Sun has drawn attention to the ongoing psychiatric practice of using electroshock therapy on children as young as four years of age. Electroshock therapy, also known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), is the practice of applying...

Gitmo For U.S. Children: Center for Retarded Kids Uses Electroshock Therapy

6/23/2008 - It appears that the use of electroshock punishment tactics isn't limited to the U.S. military these days: The state of Massachusetts has renewed a special education school's authority to use electric shocks as a form of punishment, even after the school admitted to administering excessive and unfair...

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