Tag: ECT on women
Against the Odds: âUnimproved Schizophrenicâ to Yale PhD
Forty years after I had first been admitted to the hospital, I was ready to confront my past. So, I sent for my hospital records, and I read them. As an experienced clinician, I recognized immediately what the doctors hadnât been able to see in 1960: my problem wasnât âschizophreniaâ but PTSD, connected with incest.
Stop Shocking and Torturing Women â My Sisters
Think of all those women who have undergone or will undergo electroshock and suffer severe losses in memory, intelligence, special skills, creativity. Women too disabled by shock to pursue promising careers. Women who suddenly die after being shocked. Electroshock is torture, and informed consent in psychiatry is a myth and a lie.
The Answers in the Attic: A Mother-Daughter Story of Overmedication and...
In 1959, my mother suffered what people referred to as a nervous breakdown after my sisterâs birth. I puzzled over why Mom never recovered, until I found Dadâs collection of medical records in my sisterâs attic. How could anyone give a nursing mother with three small children so many drugs in such a short period of time?
Stop Shock Now: Psychiatryâs War Against Women and the Elderly
As a movement strategy, electroshock must be clearly framed and understood as a blatant human rights violation â a profound and devastating crime against peopleâs health and lives. Here are three possible action proposals in our continuing struggle to abolish electroshock.