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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...

Doctors and psychiatrists may soon be allowed to prescribe electroshock therapy for 'off-label' use

3/18/2016 - If the Food and Drug Administration and Congress get their way, it will become much easier for the mainstream psychiatry community to utilize unregulated, dangerous electroshock therapy, even though it has been proven to be ineffective and mentally damaging in the past. An alert sent out by the Citizens...

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...

"Please, no more shock treatments!"

1/5/2014 - When I gave and supervised shock treatment or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) during my psychiatric training, patients expressed these desperate words to me - "Please, no more shock treatments!" After two or three of the treatments, they would stop expressing anything, and their shock "therapy" would...

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