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In a combination of literature review and theoretical article, the author analyzes a broad variety of scientific and real-world evidence that iatrogenic brain damage results from electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The author critically reevaluates the evidence using knowledge of basic biology and logic, and, to a lesser extent, the author makes ethical observations and legal implications. Despite many scientific and governmental authorities having concluded that ECT does not cause brain damage, there is significant evidence that ECT has indeed caused brain damage in some patients, both historically and recently, and evidence that it always causes some form or degree of brain damage. Keywords: electroconvulsive therapy (ECT); electroshock; shock therapy; brain injury; philosophy of science; iatrogenesis
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Evidence that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) causes brain damage has been overlooked and misinterpreted.
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I wrote this article as a survivor of involuntary (forced) ECT/electroshock, as a college graduate with degrees in philosophy and biotechnology, and as a decade-long observer of psychiatry research updates, the antipsychiatry movement, and the psychiatric survivor and Mad Pride movements.
Mr Christopher James Dubey
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This page is a summary of: Electroconvulsive Therapy and Brain Damage: Survey of the Evidence From a Philosophical Promontory, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, January 2017, Springer Publishing Company,
DOI: 10.1891/1559-4343.19.1.24.
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