Electric Shock Treatment, aka ECT, Electroconvulsive shock therapy, Lobotomy, Brain Surgery, Psychiatry & Pseudo-Science

Electric Shock Treatment, aka ECT, Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy, Brain Surgery (Lobotomy)

The following books examine and find serious fault the psychiatric theories and practices related to electric shock treatment and brain surgery (lobotomy). Neither lobotomy nor ECT are a "treatment" or a "therapy" - They are barbaric and damaging practices packaged and sold to an unsuspecting public under a facade of phony scientific jargon and confusing nomenclature. To discover the history and true facts of ECT and lobotomy online see the SNTP ECT Main Page, SNTP Lobotomy Page, and the SNTP Brain Damage Main Page.

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Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Role of the FDA Today! by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

Electroshock Treatment over Four Decades: The Case Against by Robert F. Morgan

Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy, and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the New Psychiatry by Peter R. Breggin

Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy by Joe Sharkey

Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal by Bruce Wiseman

Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices by Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., Professor

The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movements by Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., Professor

The Therapeutic State by Thomas Szasz

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Electroshock: Restoring the Mind by Max Fink

History of Shock Treatment by Leonard Roy Frank

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Electroshock, Its Brain-Disabling Effects by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

Shock Treatment Is Not Good for Your Brain by John Friedberg

Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness by Dr. Elliot S. Valenstein

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