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.