What is it about?
Despite data-based demonstrations that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) does not injure the brain (Swartz, Journal of ECT, June 2024), rumor of injury persists. This manuscript provides evidence against both allegations of failure to warn of a possible impression of injury from ECT, and attribution of such allegations to a federal district court judge.
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Why is it important?
Hospitals avoid allowing patients access to ECT because of public impression of injuriousness propagated by movies, TV, scientology and litigators. This brief report provides evidence of misleading rumors.
Perspectives
As a psychiatrist with extensive clinical, research and teaching experience with ECT, and former medical device company executive, I consider our severely limited ECT access a serious risk to the health of the public. Misleading rumors about ECT need to be exposed.
Conrad Swartz
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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This page is a summary of: Electroconvulsive Therapy Device Litigation, Psychiatric Services, May 2025, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20250061.
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