ECT - SHAM STATISTICS, THE MYTH OF CONVULSIVE THERAPY, AND THE CASE FOR CONSUMER MISINFORMATION

This paper emphasizes that, contrary to the claims of ECT experts and the ECT industry, a majority, not ''a small minority,'' of ECT recipie nts sustain permanent memory dysfunction each year as a result of ECT. The paper exposes the convulsion hypothesis, upon which ECT is allege dly based, as mythological. Finally, through hidden and comparative el ectrical parameters, it exposes the extreme destructive power of today 's ''new and improved'' ECT devices.