Sunday, January 9, 2011

Psychiatry's 'Shock Doctrine': Are We Really Okay With Electroshocking Toddlers?

Psychiatry's 'Shock Doctrine': Are We Really Okay With Electroshocking Toddlers?


Bruce E. Levine
Healthwyze Report

Many Americans think electro-convulsive therapy has been abandoned. But American psychiatry still regards it as a respected treatment, even for kids.


Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
— C.S. Lewis
Psychiatry's "shock doctrine" is quite literally electroshock, and its latest victims are – I'm not kidding – young children.

On Jan. 25, 2009, the Herald Sun in Melbourne, Australia, reported: "Children younger than 4 who are considered mentally disturbed are being treated with controversial electric shock treatment." In Australia, the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is increasing, and the Herald Sun's report on "Child Shock Therapy" stated that last year, "statistics record 203 ECT treatments on children younger than 14 -- including 55 aged 4 and younger."


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