Electroshock for Children and Involuntary Adults
Dr. Breggin shares the facts about electroshock, which is in fact increasing in the world of psychiatry. I remember making this claim to a beloved therapist in 2001 and he absolutely rejected the notion that electroshock was going on in America. It is and it is being exported around the world. I completely endorse and support the contention that children and involuntary mental patients should NOT be shocked to treat mental illness.
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“America and Australia are two countries I vastly admire. Nonetheless, they are continuing to abuse psychiatric patients with electroshock treatment (ECT). In America involuntary adults are being shocked despite the best efforts of psychiatric reformers (Oaks, 2009). In Australia psychiatrists have taken shock treatment to a new level of barbarity by shocking 55 toddlers age four and younger in Victoria (Hale, 2009).
The controvery over shocking children has a long history. In 2000 before his untimely death, Steve Baldwin, at the time a professor of psychology in Australia, and his co-author Melissa Oxlad wrote a book reviewing and condemning the practice throughout the world.
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