The Executive Council unanimously approved the contract during its meeting last week. (New Hampshire Bulletin file photo) New Hampshire is paying Concord-based Riverbend Mental Health Center $60,000 ...

FDA still allows ECT for children as young as 13 despite mounting evidence of harm and global calls to outlaw the practice.

This post is part two in a series. Part one is titled "Treating the Seriously Mentally Ill." I was called to evaluate Dorothy after she had been admitted to the ward from the ER, where her family had ...

From The CT Examiner. "He remembers saying no. No to shock therapy. The procedure was something he had thought about after his psychologist and ...

Despite UN calls for bans on involuntary electroshock, new applications for forced ECT at two Connecticut hospitals soared 650 percent in four years—highlighting alarming gaps in consent and patient ...

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Dolores Orrico watched her psychiatrist flip a switch and turn a knob. She stared hard as adjustments were made to the machine that’d soon send her into a seizure. She was lying in a bed on the second ...

Rebecca* remembers fighting her clinical team all the way to the theatre, shouting the electroconvulsive therapy she was about to receive was against her will. "I felt completely helpless, that my ...