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Chapter 29 - Patients’, Carers’ and the Public’s Perspectives on ECT and Related Treatments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2019

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Jonathan Waite
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I. Nicol Ferrier  and
Jonathan Waite
I. Nicol Ferrier
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Jonathan Waite
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Summary

ECT remains one of the most controversial treatments in psychiatry. Although its efficacy and safety are acknowledged and have been confirmed (Chapter 1) there are still attempts (based on flawed reviews of the literature) to claim that its use cannot be scientifically justified (Read & Bentall, 2010). Media accounts of ECT tend to be highly emotive and vary from lauding ECT as life changing (Seelye, 2016) to damning it as abusive (Browne, 2000).

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The ECT Handbook , pp. 267 - 273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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