Speak up: I’m glad I didn’t have ECT
Dolly Sen
I do not consider passing electricity someone’s through head a beautiful, compassionate deed. Few people do. In any other setting, ECT would be seen as an act of torture.
The idea of ECT came from a few people, one of them being an Italian professor of neuropsychiatry, Ugo Cerletti, who visited a pig abattoir and noticed how docile the pigs were after being shocked. It’s nice to be likened to pigs that needed to be made submissive.
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About Mental Health Nursing
The August/September issue of MHN is a special themed edition on ECT, including:
- The history and use of ECT in modern practice
• Service user views
• Using recovery staff in ECT anaesthesia
• Student perspectives on ECT
• The National Association for Lead Nurses in ECT
• Interview with an ECT lead nurse
• Organising a Twitter chat on ECT