As a psychiatric treatment, elec- troconvulsive therapy has had an image problem. One result, say Edward Shorter and David Healy, was the near absence for decades of what is a very effective approach ...

MONDAY, Dec. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Most people receiving shock therapy for mental health problems aren’t receiving any ...

Each year, more than 100,000 Americans undergo electroconvulsive therapy, also known as "electroshock treatment" and "shock therapy." Electroconvulsive therapy may seem like it's from medieval times, ...

Electroshock therapy (ECT) can treat depression safely and effectively, especially in the elderly. SHERWIN NULAND: (VO, DR. NULAND READING FROM BOOK) Just as physical pain loses its intense reality ...

A major international survey of people receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has found that most patients are not asked ...

Whoopi Goldberg has revealed that her father forced her mother to get electroshock treatment — one of the many revelations in her upcoming memoir, “Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me.” The ...

CHICAGO (AP) _ A study showing that electroshock treatment has an unexpectedly high relapse rate has refocused the spotlight on the procedure 25 years after ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' made it ...

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) groups from across Europe protested in Madrid during the 33rd European Congress of Psychiatry, demanding an end to coercive psychiatric practices. MADRID, ...

Goldberg recounts her relationship with her late mother, Emma, and brother, Clyde, in her new memoir. Whoopi Goldberg's upcoming memoir Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me serves as an ...

Last May, at the start of a court hearing conducted over Zoom, David Russell brought what he felt was a pressing matter to the judge's attention. "I had two friends that were going to testify on my ...