Asylum Magazine (Volume 21 No 3) Autumn 2014
Most of the material for this issue was gathered together by Cheryl Prax who campaigns against electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Included are pieces which discuss the bio-electrical realities, the so-said efficacy, the harmful ‘side effects’, and the social and judicial aspects of this controversial psychiatric treatment; mixed in are a number of accounts of what it is like to be subjected to shock treatment. Read more