This Podcast Will Kill You

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This Podcast Will Kill You 0901

ECT Is Not Torture: 70% Improve, 60% Recover

ECT can bring about remission in about 70% of patients and symptom resolution in 60%; it is not the electric torture of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but the oldest somatic therapy to survive from the slaughterhouse through the anti-psychiatry movement.

8 Points 8 Quotes PsychiatryECT