You have no idea what goes on inside there,” Jennifer Msumba told the lawmakers. “... How much abuse happens." ...

Arun Rath: This is GBH’s All Things Considered. I’m Arun Rath. A lot of us might assume electric shock therapy is a thing of the past. It's been widely condemned by organizations like the U.S.

The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut legislature is weighing a bill to extend the period of authorization to treat a person with electric shock therapy either with or without their consent.

The history of electric shock therapy would seem to lend itself to a rather straightforward tale of last-ditch, gruesome treatment of mental illness. After all, we’ve all seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo ...

Electric shock treatment is associated perhaps most with the 1950s and the questionable practices of sectioning people of various eccentricities and locking them up in asylums, as well as to the ...

Editor's note: The audio includes the sound of a teenager undergoing electric shock treatment. In the early 2000s, Cheryl McCollins enrolled her son Andre, who has autism and other developmental ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- One Triangle woman is crediting electroconvulsive therapy (shock therapy) for helping curb her depression. Tiana, 19, said she suffered from depression for years after intense ...

A Massachusetts school has won an appeal to use electric shock therapy on mentally disabled pupils. A federal court ruled that an earlier FDA ban on the therapy had been outside the agency's area of ...

Patients in Scotland were forced to receive electric shock treatment against their will almost 1,100 times last year – prompting calls for the NHS to stop using the ‘ethically unacceptable’ procedure.

A Massachusetts school can continue to use electric shock devices to modify behavior by students with intellectual disabilities, a federal court said this month, overturning an attempt by the ...

A SURVEY of outpatient electric-shock treatment at the Southard Clinic of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital for two years (November, 1949, through October, 1951) is presented to evaluate the worth of ...

For many of us who don’t know better, the very mention of electric shock (or electroconvulsive) therapy (ECT) conjures up dark thoughts of locked wards, nightmares and Boris Karloff movies of the ...