Posted by Larry Hoover on April 13, 2009, at 20:09:08
In reply to Re: ECT, posted by Sigismund on April 13, 2009, at 19:35:03
> Was it Sackheim who gave multiple doses of ECT to women to help them be more ideal housewives?
Maybe that was Max Fink. Not only does he have a conflict of interest (he owns a manufacturer of ECT devices), but he would shock just about anybody. Parkinson's patients, Alzheimer's patients, schizophrenics, those with Tourette's, brain tumours, the 'mentally retarded' (his own language). His oldest subject was 102 years old. The youngest, I think, was 7.
In 2007, he published a paper suggesting that the loss of personal memories following ECT was really evidence of a somatoform disorder, and that psychotherapy was warranted.
Another proponent was Abrams. But I think Fink was the one that advocated ECT for behavioural modification, noting in his 1979 textbook, "patients become more compliant and acquiescent with treatment".
Lar
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