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Most recent information on electroshock

• Lehmann, Peter: A concise guide to electroshock: Indications, mode of action, risks, alternatives. In Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 22 (2022), No. 3, pp. 36-45

• Karen, David: ECT Shock Treatment Class Action –: Case Update. DK Law Group, LLP filed a case against Mecta Corporation and Somatics, LLC, the two manufacturers of shock devices. The Complaint alleges that both Defendants, as the only two manufacturers that make and deliver shock devices, wholly failed to comply with the FDA's requirements applicable to medical device manufacturers (April 21, 2018) / See also www.madinamerica.com/2018/10/huge-breakthrough-ect-lawsuit/

• Somatics LLC: Thymatron^® System IV. User Manual, UM-TS4, Rev. 22, Venice, FL: Somatics LLC 2021. Online resource www.thymatron.com/downloads/System_IV_Instruction_Manual_Rev22.pdf

Further information

• Andre, Linda: Psychologist, psychiatrist, and shock doctor lies for fun and for profit. About the self-proclaimed "world expert" on electroshock, Harold Sackheim

• Andre, Linda: Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know About Shock (Book from 2009; Review by Peter Lehmann)

• Breggin, Peter: Disturbing News for Patients and Shock Doctors. New findings of permanent brain damage and dysfunction caused by e-shocks. Article from the Huffington Post from April 1, 2007

• Committee for Truth in Psychiatry: First victory in ECT lawsuit! Jury awards survivor US-$ 635.177 (May 2006)

• ECTresources.org: Scientific papers with an index of subjects, such as brain damage, coma, EEG flat lining, abuse of women, and the like. Also with a color brochure to help stop ECT

• ECT Justice! Have you suffered from Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)? Expose the Truth

• ect.org/resources/research.html: list of resources about scientific proven damages of electroshock

• Electroshock doctors hall of shame

• Frank, Leonard Roy: The Electroshock Quotationary, 2006

• Law Project for Psychiatric Rights: Collection of material about electroshock

• Λέμαν, Πέτερ: Η επιστροφή του ηλεκτροσόκ – Θεραπεία ή βλάβη;, Thessaloniki: Edition Nissides 2022

• Lehmann, Peter: How to produce normality with electricity. In Phoenix Rising – The Voice of the Psychiatrized (Toronto), Vol. 7 (1988), No. 4, pp. 36-37

• Lehmann, Peter: Towards the Ban of Electroshock (Manuscript from May 9, 2009)

• McLaren, Niall: No Psychiatrist Needs to Use ECT. Article from June 27, 2017 by a psychiatrist who managed over 15,000 consecutive, unselected public patients in a wide variety of settings, without once using it.

• MindFreedom (Support Coalition International): Resolution against Electroshock – A Crime against Humanity (July 28, 2001)

• Read, John / Bentall, Richard: The effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy: A literature review. Article from Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale (2010); Abstract: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21322506

• Robertson, Harold / Pryor, Robin: Memory and cognitive effects of ECT: informing and assessing patients. Article from Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2006)

• Roky Erickson Documentary, video on YouTube. See different US-American artists – all calling for a ban of electroshock

• Rose, Diana / Wykes, Til / Leese, Morven / Bindman, Jonathan / Fleischmann, Pete: Patients' perspectives on electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review. Article from the British Medical Journal (2003)

• Rufer, Marc: What about Electroshock? (pp. 394-396), in: Marc Rufer: Psychiatry – Its Diagnostic Methods, Its Therapies, Its Power (pp. 382-399), in: Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (Eds.), Alternatives beyond Psychiatry, 2007 / E-Book 2022

• Sterling, Peter: ECT damage is easy to find if you look for it, in: Nature, Vol. 403 (2000), p. 242

• Sterling, Peter: Testimony to the New York State Assembly about brain damage by electroconvulsive "therapy"

• Stevens, Lawrence: Psychiatry's Electroconvulsive shock treatment – A Crime Against Humanity

• Weitz, Don: Electroshock Must Be Banned as Crime Against Humanity – Article from Street Spirit (August 2005)

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