“In a rare intervention, the government has asked Victoria’s Chief Psychiatrist for a report on Garth Daniels, a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia, whose case has reignited the debate surrounding the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and the safeguards for people in psychiatric care.” Daniels’ family has created a petition to stop the forced shock treatment.
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