From Mad in Ireland: After more than 15 years of researching electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and a decade of participating in and moderating a private, international support group explicitly created for ECT recipients, the chasm between peer-reviewed ECT research authored by ECT providers and private conversations amongst ECT recipients is growing wider. ECT provider-authored research contains closed-ended, fixed questions designed to elicit answers fitting the hypothesis that ECT is a “gold-standard,” “safe and effective” procedure. What would happen if ECT recipients from community settings (outside clinical trials) were given the opportunity to respond to two open-ended statements without “leading the witness”?
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