If human rights include freedom from brutality and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, then there is no doubt that contemporary psychiatrys major treatment fixations are human rights abuses.

HISTORY OF ELECTROSHOCK

Spawned from the slaughterhouses of Rome in 1938, today psychiatrists around the world have reason to thank their ECT pioneers for a financial blessing that has showered them with the good things in life, all at the press of a button. Shock treatment, for the psychiatrist, is clean and quick and lucrative. In the United States alone, ECT is a $3-billion-a-year industry.

HOW ELECTROSHOCK (ECT) "WORKS"

Ask the foremost psychiatrists and they have no explanation to justify why or how their ECT works. It is literally as scientific as sticking ones head in a light socket. Do it often enough and you will become disoriented, confused, lose your memory or even die. CCHR describes the electroshock process.

HISTORY OF PSYCHOSURGERY

Modern psychosurgery can be traced to an incident in 1848 when an explosion drove an iron rod through the cheek and out the top of the head of railway worker Phineas Gage.

LAWSUITS

The damage electroshock inflicts upon unsuspecting patients has led to lawsuits in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Click the continued button to find out more.

PUBLICATIONS AND INFORMATION

Because of psychiatrys litany of lies about ECTs safety and efficacy, it has fallen to CCHR and scores of victims to ensure that people are fully informed about its risks. For more information about the often-irreparable damage and even fatal effects of electroshock, click the continued button.