Dinah, ClinkShrink, & Roy produce Shrink Rap: a blog by Psychiatrists for Psychiatrists, interested bystanders are also welcome. A place to talk; no one has to listen.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Looking for People to Talk to Me about Involuntary Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT or "shock" treatments)
As our regular readers may know, we are working on a book called Committed: The Battle Over Forced Psychiatric Care. In Maryland, there is no provision for people to have ECT against their will, it's a voluntary procedure and someone else can't sign you up. Before I learned about it from Shrink Rap readers, I didn't realize that there are other states where ECT can be court-ordered and done against a patient's will.
I'm interested in talking to people about their experiences with involuntary ECT. Anyone with a personal story is invited -- patients who've had it (court-ordered, not cases where people have been cajoled into voluntary treatment), but also family members, doctors, nurses, and the staff who do it, and even the judges who order it.
I can be reached at email : shrinkrapblog at gmail dot com, by writing a comment on this post, or via Twitter @Shrinkrapdinah. If you have no personal connection to forced ECT, please don't comment. I do already know that many people think it's awful.
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